About This Artwork

Ivan Albright
American, 1897-1983

Memories of the Past, 1927

Oil on canvas
77.5 x 51.4 cm (30 1/2 x 20 1/4 in.)
Signed lower left: Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
Gift of Ivan Albright, 1977.30

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Walden Book Shop Gallery, "The First Collected Exhibition of American Paintings by Ivan Le Lorraine Albright," August 15-September 15, 1930, cat. 9.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Paintings by George and Martin Baer and Ivan Le Lorraine Albright," July 23-October 11, 1931, no. 15.

White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Old White Art Gallery, Greenbriar Hotel, "Ivan Le Lorraine Albright," July 1-August 1, 1935, cat. 7.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition," October 31-December 27, 1964, cat. 13;
traveled to the Whitney Museum, February 3-March 31, 1965.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Works by Ivan L. Albright in the Collection," October 21-December 10, 1978, cat. 4.

Evanston, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, "Modernity in Chicago, 1910-1940,"

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.