About This Artwork

William Zorach
American, 1889-1966

Summer (recto), 1913 (recto)
1914 (verso)

Oil on canvas
73.7 x 88.9 cm (29 x 35 in.)
Signed and dated lower right: WM ZORACH. 1913. (recto)
Signed and dated lower right: WM ZORACH. 1914 (verso)
Partial and promised gift of Jamee and Marshall Field, 2005.425

American Art
Gallery 271

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Brooklyn Museum, William Zorach: Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, 1911-1922, Nov. 26, 1968-Jan. 19, 1969, cat. 4, as Summertime

Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America, May 19-July 21, 1996, cat. 217, figs. 70, 71, as Spring (recto) and Untitled (Summer) (verso).

Publication History

William Zorach, Art is My Life: The Autobiography of William Zorach (New York: The World Publishing Company), fig. 16.

Roberta Kupfrian Tarbell, Catalogue Raisonné of William Zorach's Carved Sculpture (University of Delaware, Ph.D. diss, 1976), 35-36, fig. 11, p. 37.

William H. Robinson, "Against the Grant: The Modernist Revolt," in Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America, exh. cat. (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996), p. 78-79, figs. 70, 71, as Spring (recto) and Untitled (Summer) (verso).

Ownership History

Mrs. Thomas Shanahan, Brooklyn, New York, by 1968 [Brooklyn Museum, William Zorach exhibition, 1968]. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field, Lake Forest, Ill., by 1994; given to the Art Institute in 2005.