About This Artwork
Departure of Summer1914
Oil on canvas
32 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (82.5 x 90.2 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "Man Ray 1914"
Through prior gift of the Mary and Leigh Block Collection, 1992.653
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Gallery 391B
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Arts Club of Chicago, An Exhibition of Modern American Paintings: Assembled and Loaned by The Daniel Gallery, New York, February 10-February 24, 1928, no. 8.
Pasadena Art Institute, Man Ray, September 19-October 29, 1944, no. 9.
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Man Ray, 1966, no. 13.
New York, Cultural Center, Man Ray: Inventor/Painter/Poet, December 19, 1974-March 12, 975, no. 11 (ill.).
Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Man Ray: L’Occhio e il suo doppio, July-September 1975, p. 57.
Montclair, New Jersey, Art Museum, Conversion to Modernism: The Early Works of Man Ray, February 16–August 3, 2003; traveled to Athens, Georgia Museum of Art, September 20–November 20, 2003; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, January 23–April 4, 2004.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Cézanne and American Modernism, 14 February - 23 May 2010.
Publication History
Francis Naumann, “Man Ray and America: The New York and Ridgefield years: 1907-1921,” Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, New York, 1988 (UMI), pp. 139-140, no. 218/67.
Francis Naumann, “Man Ray, Hills,” in Masterworks of American Art from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, ed. P. Schweizer (New York, 1989), p. 117.
Charles Stuckey, “Selected recent acquisitions of twentieth-century art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Burlington Magazine (October 1993), pp. 725-728, fig. V.
Ownership History
Elsie Ray Sisgler, c. 1921, acquired directly from the artist. Daniel Gallery, New York, by January 1928. Paul Matisse Gallery, Beverly Hills, by 1966 [Los Angeles 1966]. Stephan Lion, New York, by 1975 [New York 1975]. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Middendorf, Washington, by 1988 [Naumann 1989]. Acquired by the Art Institute, July 1992.