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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 118th Annual Exhibition, February 4-March 25, 1923, cat. 65, ill. p. 24.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Department of Fine Arts, An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Lithographs by George Bellows, February 26-March 31, 1923, cat. 34 as Portrait of My Mother. (Probably not AIC version)

Detroit Institute of Arts, Ninth Annual Exhibition, April 11-May 31, 1923, cat. 9 as Portrait of My Mother. (Possibly AIC version)

St. Louis, The City Art Museum, Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, September 15-October 24, 1923, cat. 6, ill. no. 6.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-sixth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, November 1-December 9, 1923, cat. 12 (ill.).

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of George Bellows, October 12-November 22, 1925, cat. 44, ill. p. 86, as Portrait of My Mother.

Paris, Galerie de la Chambre Syndicale des Beaux-Arts, The Art Patrons of America Inc., Exhibition of American Art, June 9-July 5, 1926, cat. 8 as Portrait of My Mother. (Possibly not AIC version)

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 432.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 498.

Art Institute of Chicago, George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings and Prints,” January 31-March 10, 1946, cat. 46, ill. p. 52.

London, The Tate Gallery, American Painting From the Eighteenth Century to Present Day, June-July 1946, cat. 15.

Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, The Artist and His Family, March 3-April 30, 1950, cat. 1.

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, George Bellows: A Retrospective, Jan. 19-Feb. 24, 1957, cat. 50, ill. p. 84; traveled to Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, as Paintings by George Bellows, Mar. 21-Apr. 21, 1957, cat. 54.

New York, Gallery of Modern Art, George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, March 15, 1966-May 1, 1966, cat. 61, pp. 9, 36 (ill.).

Los Angeles, Ca., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Paintings of George Bellows, Feb. 16-May 10, 1992, no cat. num., fig. 47, traveled to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, June 5-Aug. 20, 1992, Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art, Oct. 11, 1992-Jan. 3, 1993, Fort Worth, Tex., Amon Carter Museum, Feb. 20-May 9, 1993.

Publication History

“Illustrations of Acquisitions,” Art Institute of Chicago 45th Annual Report, 1923, p. 65 (ill.).

“The Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, 9 (December 1923), p. 102 (ill.).

American Art Annual 20 (The American Federation of Arts, 1923), p. 24 (ill.).

Emma S. Bellows, The Paintings of George Bellows (Alfred A. Knopf, 1929), pl. 113.

Walter Gutman, “George Bellows,” Art in America 27, 2 (February 1929), p.107 (ill.), as Portrait of the Artist’s Mother.

George W. Eggers, George Bellows (American Artists Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1931), p. 49 (ill.), as Portrait of My Mother (No. 2).

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), pp. 135 (ill.), 136, as Portrait of My Mother.

John Shapley, ed., The Index of Twentieth Century Artists 1, 6 (College Art Association, March 1934), p. 127.

John Shapley, ed., The Index of Twentieth Century Artists 2, 12 (College Art Association, September 1934), p. xix.

Harold J. Bailey, “George Bellows’ Painting: My Mother,” The Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 22, 2 (April 1935), pp. 74 (ill.), 75, 78-79.

Josephine Hancock Logan, Sanity in Art (A. Kroch, 1937), p. 85 (ill.).

“Chicago Art Institute: Its French Exhibit is Tops, Its School Best in Midwest,” Life 11,10 (September 8, 1941), p. 60 (ill.)

Peyton Boswell, Jr., George Bellows (Crown Publishers, 1942), pp. 20, 76 (ill.).

Daniel Catton Rich, “The Art Institute of Chicago—And Chicago,” Art in America 32,4 (October 1944), p. 250, as Portrait of His Mother.

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 22.

Charles H. Morgan, George Bellows: Painter of America (Reynal, 1965). pp. 13, 244, 266, 300, 359 (ill).

Donald Braider, George Bellows and the Ashcan School of Painting (Doubleday, 1971), p. 137.

Michael Quick, et al., The Paintings of George Bellows, exh. cat. (Amon Carter Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992), pp. 2, 211, 219, ill. fig. 47, p. 220.

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. 17.

Ownership History

The artist; purchased by the Art Institute in 1923.