About This Artwork

Ivan Albright
American, 1897-1983

I Walk To and Fro Through Civilization, 1926-27

Oil on canvas
185.4 x 91.4 cm (73 x 36 in.)
Signed lower right: Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
Gift of Ivan Albright, 1977.28

© The Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "Paintings by George and Martin Baer and Ivan Le Lorraine Albright," 1931, no. 24 (as He Verily Loveth Me and I Him).

Chicago, Grant Park Art Fair, 1933 (as Verily, Verily He Loveth Me and I Him).

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, "128th Annual Exhibition," January 24-March 19, 1933, cat. 116 (as Verily, Verily He Loveth Me and I Him).

White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Old White Art Gallery, Greenbriar Hotel, "Ivan Le Lorraine Albright," July 1-August 1, 1935, cat, 12 (as Verily, Verily He Loveth Me and I Him).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "American Realists and Magic Realists," 1943, cat. 24 (as I Walked to and fro through Civilization and I Talk as I Walk).

New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, "First Joint Exhibition: The Albright Twins," March 29-April 17, 1946, cat. 8 (as I Walked to and fro through Civilization and I Talk as I Walk).

Chicago, Riccardo's Restaurant and Gallery, solo exhibition, February 1953.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition," October 31-December 27, 1964, cat. 12;
traveled to the Whitney Museum, February 3-March 31, 1965 (as I Walk to and fro through Civilization and I Talk as I Walk [Follow Me, the Monk]).

Art Institute of Chicago, "Works by Ivan L. Albright in the Collection," October 21-December 19, cat. 1 (as I Walk to and fro through Civilization and I Talk as I Walk [Follow Me, the Monk]).

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.