About This Artwork

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
German, 1884–1976

Two Girls in a Garden, 1914

Oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 34 in. (100.3 x 86.4 cm)
Signed and dated, l.c.: "S. Rottluff 1914"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M. Freehling in memory of Juliet S. Freehling, 1959.212

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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, November 1957.

Wisconsin, Sheboygan Art Foundation, The Expressionist Revolt, September 13– October 25, 1970, no. 113.

Publication History

J. M., Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 53-54 (February 1960), p. 6 (ill.), 7.

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 413 (ill.).

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 69, pl. 3G4.

Ownership History

Dr. Fetscherin. Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, by May 1956 [verso]. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Freehling, Chicago, by 1959. Given by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.