About This Artwork

Charles Howard
American, 1899–1978

Trinity, 1941

Oil on canvas
61 x 86.4 cm (24 x 34 in.)
No signature
Wilson L. Mead Fund, 1945.292

Unknown 70

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States, p. 78 (ill.).

San Francisco Museum of Art, Sixty-Third Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, Oil, Tempera on Panel, Sculpture, October 20–November 14, 1943, cat. 38.

Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty–Sixth Annual American Exhibition of Paintings, October 25, 1945–January 1, 1946, cat. 70, pl.XIII.

London, Tate Gallery, American Painting From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, June–July 1946, cat. 118.

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Charles Howard, Retrospective Exhibition, 1925–1946, May 10–June 9, 1946, p. 118.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, cat. by Andrew Carnduff Ritchie; January 23–March 25, 1951, cat. 48, p. 129 (ill.).

Lake Forest College, A Century of American Painting, Masterpieces Loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–16, 1957, cat. 26.

Oakland Museum, The Howards, First Family of Bay Area Modernism, cat. by Stacey Moss, May 14–August 7, 1988, p. 114.

Laguna Art Museum, Pursuit of the Marvelous: Stanley William Hayter, Charles Howard, Gordon Onslow Ford, October 5, 1990–January 13, 1991, p. 28 (ill.).

Publication History

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. 132.