
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled
Willem de Kooning · 1948/49
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold, Charles Egan Gallery, New York, to Mary and Earle Ludgin, Chicago, by 1967; given to the Art Institute, 1981
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, “4th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,” November 25, 1950–January 1, 1951, n.pag. (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, “27th Annual Society for Contemporary American Art Exhibition,” April 11–May 21, 1967, no cat.
- Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, “Willem de Kooning: 1941–1959,” October 4–November 16, 1974, cat. 7 (ill.).
- David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, “Abstract Expressionism, A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg: Paintings and Drawings from Chicago Collections,” October 11–November 25, 1979, front cover (ill.), cat. 5 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, “Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection,” September 11–October 31, 1982, no cat.
- Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, “Willem de Kooning: Paintings,” May 8–September 5, 1994, cat. by Marla Prather with essays by David Sylvester and Richard Shiff; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 11, 1994–January 8, 1995, and London, Tate Gallery, February 15–May 7, 1995, p. 96, cat. 13 (color ill.).
Literature
Published references
- “Contemporary Americans: West Coast Version,” “Art Digest” 25, 6 (December 15, 1960), p. 9 (ill.), as “Black and White.”
- “The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1981–82” (Art Institute of Chicago, 1982), pp. 13, 38, fig. 4 (ill.), as “Untitled (Black and White).”
- James N. Wood, “Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting: The Art Institute of Chicago” (Abbeville Press, 1993), p. 298 (color ill.).
- “Franz Kline: Black and White, 1950–1961,” exh. cat. (Menil Collection/Houston Fine Art Press, 1994), p. 11, fig. 1 (ill.).
- Anthony Haden-Guest, “The Last Modernist,” “Sunday Times (London),” February 5, 1995, p. 29 (ill.).
- David Sylvester, “The Birth of ‘Woman I,’” “Burlington Magazine” 137, 1105 (April 1995), p. 225, fig. 4 (ill.).
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