About This Artwork
Walter Ellison
American, 1899-1977
Train Station, 1935
Oil on cardboard
20 x 36 cm (8 x 14 in.)
Signed lower right: Walter W. Ellison
Signed lower right (vertically on suitcase): W W E
Charles M. Kurtz Charitable Trust and Barbara Neff Smith and Solomon Byron Smith funds; through prior gifts of Florence Jane Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, and the estate of Celia Schmidt, 1990.134
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, 1418 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, Inc., Twelfth Annual Exhibition, June 13-27, 1936, cat. 98, as R. R. Station, Macon, Ga.
Art Institute of Chicago, New Acquisitions: Early American Modernist Painting, June 25-November 25, 1990, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Telling Images: Stories in Art, September 1996-June 1999, ill. p. 38.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago, February 15-May 18, 2003, no cat.
Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New, July 17-October 31, 2004, cat. 30, ill. p. 109.
Publication History
Derrick Joshua Beard Fine Arts, Opening Exhibition, November 30-December 2, 1990, fig. 9. [This is an exhibition catalogue, but Train Station was not shown.]
Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick, “A Portfolio of Works by African American Artists Continuing the Dialogue: A Work in Progress,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), pp. 186, 193-94, cat 5, ill.
Ownership History
Irwin Weinberg. Sold by Galerie Americana to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.