White Crucifixion

1. The artist, Paris and later White Falls, New York; given to his daughter, Ida Gordey (1916–1994), New York, 1944 [letter from Marc Chagall to Daniel Catton Rich, Dec. 8, 1946, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 27, 1946.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Galerie Mai, Marc Chagall, January 26–February 24, 1940, cat. 1, as Le Christ, 1939.
• Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, Religious Art of Today, April 11–June 1, 1944, n.p., cat. 6 (ill), as Crucifixion, n.d.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Marc Chagall, April 9–June 23, 1946, pp. 61–62, and 88, cat. 46 (ill.), as White Crucifixion, 1938; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, November 14, 1946–January 12, 1947.
• Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma, Religious Emphasis Week, December 2–6, 1951.
• Chicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, The Condition of Modern Man: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, January 6–February 2, 1957, n.p., cat. 4, as White Crucifixion, n.d.
• Hubbard Woods, Ill., Sacred Heart Parish, February 18, 1957.
• Chicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Marc Chagall: Paintings and Graphic Works, February 15–March 8, 1958, cat. 1 (ill.), as White Crucifixion, n.d.
• Hamburg, Germany, Kunstverein, Marc Chagall, February 6–March 22, 1959, cat. 100 (ill.), as Weiße Kreuzigung, 1938; traveled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, April 7–May 31, 1959, and Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, June 14–September 31, 1959, p. 314–315, cat. 117 (ill.), as La Crucifixion blanche, 1938.
• Chicago, William Findlay Gallery, Exhibition for Benefit of the Art Institute School, October 13–25, 1961, no cat.
• La Jolla, Calif., La Jolla Art Center, Marc Chagall, 75th Anniversary Exhibition, October 1–November 11, 1962, n.p., cat. 27 (ill.), as White Crucifixion, 1938.
• Tokyo, Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan and Galerie Shirokiya, Marc Chagall, October 1–November 10, 1963, pp. 82–83, cat. 59 (ill.), as La crucifixion blanche, 1938; traveled to Kyoto, Kyōto-shi Bijutsukan and Kyōto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, November 20–December 10, 1963.
• Buffalo, N.Y., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Alright-Knox Art Gallery, Religious Art from Byzantium to Chagall, December 13, 1964–January 10, 1965, n.p., cat. 122 (ill.), as The White Crucifixion, 1938.

• Cahiers d’Art 14:5–10 (1939), p. 152 (ill.), as Le Christ, 1939.
• Marcel Raval, “L’Exposition Chagall à la Galerie MAI,” Prométhée: L’Amour de l’Art, n.s., no. 910 (December 1939-January 1940), p. 299-300.
• Alexandre Benois, “Chagall, oeuvres récentes,” Cahiers d’Art, 15:1–2 (1940), pp. 33 and 35 (ill.).
• Raïssa Maritain, Marc Chagall (New York: Éditions de la Maison Française, 1943), pp. 28–30, pl. VII, as Le Christ, 1939.
• Dayton Art Institute, Religious Art of Today, exh. cat. (Dayton, Ohio: Dayton Art Institute, 1944), n.p., cat. 6 (ill), as Crucifixion, n.d.
• “Dayton Exhibition,” Liturgical Arts 12:3 (May 1944), p. 66 (ill.), as Crucifixion, n.d.
• Harold Rosenberg, “Marc Chagall: Jewish Modernist Master,” Jewish Frontier, vol. 12, no,. 4 (April 1945), p. 32, as Crucifixion, 1939.
• James Johnson Sweeney, Marc Chagall, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946), pp. 61–62, and 88, cat. 46 (ill.), as White Crucifixion, 1938.
• Clement Greenberg, The Nation (June 1, 1946), p. 672, as White Crucifixion, 1939.
• Jean Leymarie, “Marc Chagall parmi nous,” L’Amour de l’Art 26:VIII (August 1946), p. 239 (ill.).
• Marc Chagall, “Unity is the Soul of Culture,” Jewish Life [Cultural Supplement], vol. 2, no. 1 (November 1947), p. 4 (ill.), as White Crucifixion.
• Raïssa Maritain, Chagall ou l’orage Enchanté (Geneva: Éditions des trios Collines, 1948), p. 117 (ill.), as Crucifixion, 1938.

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