Object Information
Ivan Albright
American, 1897-1983
Self-Portrait, 1935
Oil on canvas
77.2 x 50.5 cm (30 3/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
Signed and dated 1.r.: Ivan Le Lorraine Albright 1935
Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, 1981.257
American Art
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, Ill., 40th Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Jan. 30-March 1, 1936, cat. no. 7 as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, American Realists and Magic Realists, 1943, cat. no. 32, ill. p. 24 as Self-Portrait.
Chicago, Ill., The Renaissance Society, Contemporary Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ludgin, Oct. 30-Nov. 20, 1946, cat. no. 1, as Self-Portrait.
Evanston, Ill., Scott Hall, Northwestern University Department of Art, Centennial Loan Exhibition: Modern Paintings from Private Collections in the Chicago Area, April 9-26, 1951, cat. no. 2.
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, 12 Peintures et Sculpteurs Americains Contemporains, April-June, 1953, cat. no. 2, ill. pl. 1; traveled to Stockholm, Amsterdam, Milan, London, Oslo, Zurich through April 30, 1954.
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Ludgin Collection of Contemporary Painting, April 11 –May 16, 1954.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition, 1964 cat. no. 21, cover page, as Self-Portrait; traveled to the Whitney Museum in 1965.
Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, American Self Portraits, Feb. 1974, cat. no. 72, color ill., p. 159 as Self-Portrait; traveled to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, April 1-May 14, 1974.
University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, Portraits USA 1776-1976, April 1976, cat. p. 106-107, color ill. as Self-Portrait.
Berlin, Neue Gesellschaft fur bilende Kunst, Academy of Fine Arts, America: Traum und Depression, 1920-1940, Nov. 9-Dec. 28, 1980, cat. no.2, color ill. p. 274; traveled to the Kunstverein, Hamburg, Jan. 11-Feb. 15, 1981.
Art Institute of Chicago, Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, Sept. 11-Oct. 31, 1982.
Hanover, NH, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Ivan Albright: The Late Self-Portraits, May 24-July 20, 1986, cat. no. 1, ill. p. 31.
ASAHI Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan for the "Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago" exhibition, traveled to Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka April 20-May 29, 1994, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya June 10-July 24, 1994, Yokohama Museum of Art August 6-September 25, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright, February 20-May 11, 1997, cat. 29, traveled to New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 10-September 7, 1997, as Ivan Albright: Magic Realist.
Columbus Museum of Art, American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920s-1950s, May 22-August 24, 2004, traveled to Kennedy Galleries, New York, September 20-November 1, 2003, Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL, January 30-May 9, 2004 (Columbus and Evanston only).
Publication History
“Albright’s Self Portrait,” Chicago Tribune, July 16, 1939, ill.
Daniel Catton Rich, “Ivan Le lorraine Albright: Our Own Jeremiah,” Magazine of Art, Feb. 1943, ill. p. 49.
“Albright Twins Paint Gruesome Masterpieces,” Life, March 27, 1944, pp. 64-70, ill.
Alice Frost Lord, “New Harbor, Corea, Cundy’s Harbor and Deer Isle Intrigue Hollywood Artists,” Leiston (Maine) Journal, Magazine Section, Nov. 24, 1944, p. A-3, ill.
Frank Holland, “Lofty Art Collection,” Chicago Sun-Times, Aug. 24, 1952, ill.
Dorothy Bridaham, “The Paintings of Ivan Albright,” Chicago, April 1954, pp.20-41, ill., cover illustration, discussed on p. 41.
WFMT Fine Arts Guide, Chicago, Nov. 1960, ill.
Edith Weigle, “The Genius of Ivan Albright,” Chicago Tribune Magazine, Jan. 27, 1963, pp. 25-27, ill. on p. 27.
Edward Barry, “Albright Genius Revealed in Art Institute Exhibition,” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 30, 1964, ill. (Review of AIC retrospective).
Sarah Boyden, “The Art of Ivan Albright,” Chicago Sun-Times, Midwest Magazine, November 15, 1964, color ill., p. 4.
“Growth and Death,” Newsweek, Nov. 23, 1964, p. 105 (Image reproduced, and photo of Albright.
“Painting: Grandeur and Decay,” Time, Dec. 18, 194, p. 82. (Review of AIC retrospective, image reproduced).
Katherine Kuh, “No Single Fact Is As It Seems,” Saturday Review, Feb. 11, 1967, pp. 23-27, ill. p. 23.
Michael Croydon, Ivan Albright (Abbeville Press, 1978), p. 98, plates 49, 50.
Fritz Neugass, “Ivan Le Lorrain Albright,” Das Kunstwerk IXXXII, 1980, ill. (in German).
AIC Annual Report, 1981-82, p. 38.
Mitchell Douglas Kahan, “Subjective Currents in American Painting of the 1930s,” PhD Dissertation, City University of New York, 1983, ill. no. 31, p. 77, 84-85.
Michael Bonesteel, “In a Museum of Mirrors,” Art in America, Dec. 1984, pp. 143-146, ill. p. 144.
Gertrude Grace Sill, “The Face in the Mirror: What Do American Artists See in Themselves,” Connoisseur, July 1986, pp. 47-52, color ill. p. 50.
Edmund Burke Feldman, Varieties in Visual Experience, (Harry N. Abrams, 1991), ill.
Ownership History
Mary and Earle (1935-1981) Ludgin, Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1981.