About This Artwork

Ivan Albright
American, 1897-1983

Wherefore Now Ariseth the Illusion of a Third Dimension, 1931

Oil on canvas
50.8 x 91.4 cm (20 x 36 in.)
Signed lower left: Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
Gift of Ivan Albright, 1977.23

© The Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Philadelphia, The Art Club, "Annual Exhibition of Members of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts," February 1934.

Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, "The 14th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings," March 24-May 5, 1935, cat. 214.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, "The 1937 International Exhibition of Paintings," October 14-December 5, 1937, cat. 97.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, "133rd Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," January 30-March 6, 1938, cat. 23.

Chicago, The Arts Club, "Exhibition of Professional Members," April 24-May 13, 1939.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "American Realists and Magic Realists," 1943, cat. 31, ill. p. 25.

New York, Rockefeller Center, "Second Annual Portrait of America Exhibition," 1946; traveled to Seattle and Phoenix, cat. 1.

New York, National Arts Club, The Allied Artists of America, "34th Annual Exhibition," October 5-26, 1947, cat. 91.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "American Painting Today," 1950, cat. 3, pl. 10.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, "151st Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," January 22-February 26, 1956, cat. 14.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition," October 30-December 27, 1964; traveled to Whitney Museum, February 3-March 21, 1965, cat. 17.

Hanover, New Hampshire, Sartmouth College, Hopkins Center, December 12, 1975-January 11, 1976.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Works by Ivan L. Albright from the Collection," October 21-December 10, 1978, cat. 10.

Chicago, Richard L. Feigen Gallery, "Ivan Albright," September 9-October 15, 1988.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Ivan Albright: Magic Realist," February 20-May 11, 1997; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 10-September 7, 1997.

Munich, Germany, Kunsthalle de Hypo-Kulturstiftung, "Realism in the Twentieth Century", June 1-Septmber 2, 2001.