Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Woman with a Book
Jonas Welch Holman · 1827–30
Provenance
Ownership history
- Philadelphia Collection; sold to Downtown Gallery / American Folk Art Gallery, New York, NY, by 1938; sold to Robert Allerton, Chicago, 1938; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Milwaukee Art Institute, American Primitive Art, 1750–1950, Feb. 23–Mar. 25, 1951, no. 28.
- Chicago, Carson Pirie Scott & Co.: window display, Apr. 11–30, 1952.
- Chicago, Charles A. Stevens Store, Mar. 27–May 27, 1956.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s</em>, Sept. 21, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Calendar 1983, May/June 1983, p. 3 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, "<em>For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago</em>," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) no. 26.
- Laura Lessing, ed., A Usable Past: Amercan Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art (Colby, Maine, 2016), 72, fig. 36.
- Elizabeth McGoey and Elizabeth Siegel, "Photography + Folk Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," The Decorative Arts Trust Magazine (Summer 2019): 16, fig. 3 (ill.).
- Karla Klein Albertson, "Photography + Folk Art," <em>Antiques and the Arts Weekly</em>, Nov. 19, 2019, <a href="https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/photography-folk-art">https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/photography-folk-art</a>, ill.
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