About This Artwork

Ivan Albright
American, 1897-1983

Flesh, 1928

Oil on canvas
91.4 x 61 cm (36 x 24 in.)
Signed 1.r.: Ivan Le Lorraine Albright.
Gift of Ivan Albright, 1969.814

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "33rd Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity," February 7-March 10, 1929, cat. 4, ill.

Chicago, Stevens Hotel, the Chicago Society of Artists, "Autumn Exhibition," November 17-December 1, 1929, cat. 2.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Paintings by George and Martin Baer and Ivan Le Lorraine Albright," July 13-October 11, 1931, no. 11.

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, "The 139th Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," January 23-February 27, 1944, cat. 66 (as Smaller Than Tears are the Little Blue Flowers).

Whitney Museum, "1944 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," November 14-December 12, 1944, cat. 1, (as Smaller Than Tears are the Little Blue Flowers).

New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, "First Joint Exhibition: The Albright Twins," October 22-November 10, 1945, cat. 10, (as Smaller Than Tears are the Little Blue Flowers).

Art Institute of Chicago, "Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition," October 30-December 27, 1964; traveled to Whitney Museum, February 3-March 21, 1965, cat. 2 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, "Works by Ivan L. Albright fromt he Collection," October 21-December 10, 1978, cat. 5.

Chicago, Richard L. Feigen Gallery, "Ivan Albright," September 9-October 15, 1988.

New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, "Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art Revisited," October 14-November 8, 1989, cat. p. 39, ill.; traveled to Phyllis Kind, Chicago, December 1, 1989-January 9, 1990.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Ivan Albright: Magic Realist," February 20-May 11, 1997; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 10-September 7, 1997.