
Art Institute of Chicago
Wrigley's
Charles Green Shaw · 1937
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; bequeathed to Charles H. Carpenter, New Canaan, CT, 1974; [Washburn Gallery, c. 1974–1978], sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Washburn Gallery, <em>Charles Shaw: Work from 1935 to 1942</em>, Dec. 2, 1975–Jan. 10, 1976. [works in show are not listed, nor is Wrigley's illustrated, but the Judith Tannenbaum article in Arts Magazine confirms that it was in this show.]
- Ridgefield, CT, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, <em>Charles Shaw</em>, June 25–Aug. 7, 1977, no cat.
- New York, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, <em>The Park Avenue Cubists: The Work of Gallatin, Morris, Frelinghuysen, and Shaw</em>, Jan. 14–Mar. 29, 2003, cat.; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Apr. 22–July 31, 2003; Gainesville, FL, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Sept. 2–Nov. 30, 2003.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1952/america-after-the-fall-painting-in-the-1930s"><em>America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s</em></a>, June 5–Sept. 18, 2016, cat. 42; Paris, Musee de l'Orangerie, Oct. 15, 2016–Jan. 30, 2017; London, Royal Academy, Feb. 25–June 4, 2017.
Literature
Published references
- Judith Tannenbaum, "Charles Shaw," <em>Arts Magazine</em> 50, no. 6 (Feb. 1976): 15.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 240–43, cat. 113 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, ed., <em>America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s</em>, exh. cat. (Art Insitute of Chicago, 2016), 75–77, 187, cat. 42, fig. 14 (ill.).
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