
Art Institute of Chicago
Women Harvesting
Paul Klee · 1937
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of Paul Klee [receipt from Theodore Schempp in file]. Buchholz Gallery, New York [receipt from Schempp in file]. Lee A. Ault, New Cannan, Conn. [receipt from Schempp in file]. Theodore Schempp and Co., Paris and New York, by April 20, 1951 [copy of receipt of April 20, 1951 in curatorial file]; sold to Mrs. Morton G. Schamburg, Highland Park, Ill., April 20, 1951 to 1959; given to the Art Institute, 1959.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, The Arts Club, Thirteen Pictures from Chicago Collections, November 8–December 6, 1956, cat. 48.
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, Paul Klee: Neue Werke, February 16–March 25, 1940, no. 150.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1961), p. 252.
- Max Huggler, Paul Klee: Die Malerei als Blick in den Kosmos (Stuttgart, 1969), p. 170.
- Richard Verdi, “Musikalische Einflüsse bei Klee,” Melos (January–February 1973), v. XL, p. 16 (ill.).
- Richard Verdi, “Musical Influences on the Art of Paul Klee,” Museum Studies (1968), v. 3, pp. 94–5 (ill.), fig. 12.
- A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 49, cat. 2C11.
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