About This Artwork

Marcel Janco
Israeli, born Romania, 1895–1984

Composition with Red Arrow, 1918

Plaster and casein on burlap, mounted on cardboard
19 3/4 x 26 1/2 in. (50.2 x 66.7 cm)
Signed, l.l.: "M. Janco"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Markus, 1963.374

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Spertus Museum of Judaica, The French Connection: Jewish Artists in the School of Paris 1900–1940, October 24–December 31, 1982, no. 19 (ill.), n.p.

Chicago, Maurice Spertus Museum, Israeli Art in Chicago Collection, July 14–August 25, 1974.

Publication History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961) p. 247 A.

Marcel L. Mendelson, Marcel Janco (Israel, 1962), p. 30 (ill.), p. 31.

Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, v. 57, no. 4 (1963–64), pp. 8–9 (ill.).

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 287, p. 46.

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Markus, purchased from the artist, by 1963. Gift to Art Institute, 1963.