About This Artwork

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Increase Robinson Studio Gallery, Diana Court, Michigan Square, The Chicago Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, November 1-22, 1930, cat. 9, as Alligator.

Chicago, The Palmer House Exhibition Hall, Chicago Artists Exhibition in Connection with Jubilee Week, May 11-20, 1931, cat. 95, as Alligator.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, A Tribute to Kathleen Blackshear, December 7, 1990-January 9, 1991, cat. 3, fig. 3, pp. 16-17.

Evanston, IL, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Thinking Modern: Painting in Chicago, 1910-1940, January 18-April 5, 1992, cat. 32

Los Angeles, CA, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945, October 14, 1995-January 28, 1996, pl. 200, pp. 196, 201; traveled to Tulsa, OK, Gilcrease Museum, March 2-May 26, 1996; Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, June 29-September 22, 1996; Utah, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, October 26, 1996-January 19, 1997.

Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New, July 17-October 31, 2004, cat. 13, p. 92 (ill.).

Publication History

Carole Tormollan, A Tribute to Kathleen Blackshear, exh. cat. (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, 1990), pp. 16, ill. fig. 4, p. 17.

Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945, edited by Patricia Trenton, exh. cat. (Autry Museum of Western Heritage in association with the University of California Press, 1995), p. 201, ill. pl. 200.

Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New, edited by Elizabeth Kennedy, exh. cat. (Terra Museum of American Art and Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2004), p. 92 (ill.).

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Terrell, Sr., Navasota, Tex., given to the Art Institute, 1991.