About This Artwork

Walter Gay
American, 1856-1937

The Commode, 1905/12

Oil on canvas
66 x 54.6 cm (26 x 21 1/2 in.)
Signed: Walter Gay, lower right
Friends of American Art Collection, 1914.357

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

San Diego, Museum of Art, March-May 1926.

Evanston, University League, September-October 1926.

Minneapolis Art Institute, November-December 1926.

Omaha, Joslyn Memorial Museum, November-December 1931.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1-October 1933.

Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, November 5, 1935–March 3, 1936.

Art Institute of Chicago, Half a Century of American Art, November 16, 1939-January 7, 1940.

Indiana, South Bend Art Association, "American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," February 10-March 31, 1948.

Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Walter Gay: A Retrospective, September 16-November 1, 1980.

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011), no. 51.