About This Artwork

John D. Graham
American, born Russia, 1886-1961

Cave Canem, 1944

Oil on canvas
76.2 x 72.1 cm (30 x 24 in.)
Signed on back: CAVE CANEM/GRAHAM/XXXXIV
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro, 1973.60

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 88, ill.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 154.