About This Artwork

Ivan Albright
American, 1897-1983

Showcase Doll, 1931-32

Charcoal and oil on canvas
88.9 x 137.2 cm (35 x 54 in.)
Signed lower right: Ivan Albright
Gift of Ivan Albright, 1977.24

© The Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "48th Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity," January 27-March 5, 1944, cat. 5 (as The Show Case Doll That Was Never Painted).

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, "Painting in the United States," October 12-December 10, 1944, cat. 65 (as The Showcase Doll That Was Never Painted).

Art Institute of Chicago, "Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition," October 30-December 27, 1964, cat. 50, ill.; traveled to Whitney Museum, February 3-March 31, 1965.

Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center, winter 1975-6.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Works by Ivan Albright from the Collection," October 21-December 10, 1978, cat. 11.

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.