
Art Institute of Chicago
Two Sisters, Valencia
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida · 1909
Provenance
Ownership history
- Thomas Fortune Ryan, New York, 1909 [Chicago 1911]. Mrs. William S. (Elizabeth H.) North, Chicago, probably March 1911 [Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 1911]; given to the Art Institute, 1911.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, February 14-March 12, 1911, cat. 7.
- Boston, Copley Society, February 20-March 28, 1912.
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Inaugural Exhibition, January-February 1915, cat. 285.
- Chicago, Art Institute, First Exhibition of Work by the Alumni of the Art Institute of Chicago, January 8-February 7, 1918, cat. 678.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, June 1919.
- Toledo, Ohio, Museum of Art, Contemporary Spanish Paintings, February-April 1928.
- Chicago, Art Institute, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 275.
- Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, Spanish Painting, January 11-February 6, 1952, cat. 42.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, Five Centuries of Spanish Art, September 5-October 25, 1952, cat. 46.
- New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, The Painter, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, March 14-May 13, 1989, cat. 51 (color ill.); traveled to Saint Louis Art Museum, June 23-August 13, 1989; San Diego Museum of Art, September 16-October 28, 1989; Valencia, Spain, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, November 28, 1989-January 28, 1990.
- Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Rings: Five Passions in World Art, July 4-September 29, 1996, no cat. no., pp. 260, 261 (color ill.).
- Bilbao, Spain, Museo de Bellas Artes, Sorolla & Zuloaga: Dos Visiones Para Un Cambio de Siglo, December 19, 1997-February 22, 1998, cat. 45; Madrid, Fundacion Cultural Mapfre Vida, April 7-July 15, 1998.
Literature
Published references
- Doménech, Rafael, Sorolla: sa vie et son oeuvre, Bibliotheque d’Art Espanol 1 (Madrid : Léonce Miguel, 1910), pp. 84, fig. 111 (ill.), 85, fig. 113 (detail ill.), 86, fig. 113 (detail ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, “Sorolla’s Exhibition and Visit,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 4,4 (April 1911), pp. 60, 61 (ill.).
- Williams, Leonard, Catalogue of Paintings by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida under the Management of the Hispanic Society of America, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1911), cat. 7.
- Gil, Roldolfo, Joaquín Sorolla, Monografías de arte universal 7 (Madrid, Saenz de Jubera Hermanos, 1913), p. 53.
- M.I.G.O., “Studio Talk: Chicago,” International Studio 49, 193-96 (March-June 1913), pp. 166, 167 (ill.).
- Bryant, Lorinda Munson, What Pictures to See in America (New York : John Lane Company, 1915), p. 259, fig. 168 (ill.).
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1915), cat. 285.
- Art Institute of Chicago, First Exhibition of Work by the Alumni of the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1918), cat. 678.
- Toledo Museum of Art, Contemporary Spanish Paintings, exh. cat. (Toledo, Ohio: Toledo Museum of Art, 1928).
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 97 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), cat. 275.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, Five Centuries of Spanish Art, exh. cat. (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Institute, 1952), cat. 46.
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