About This Artwork

Ivan Albright
American, 1897-1983

Heavy the Oar to Him Who is Tired, Heavy the Coat, Heavy the Sea, 1929

Oil on canvas
135.3 x 86.4 cm (53 1/4 x 34 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ludgin, 1959.12

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1930 (as A Mexican Fisherman).

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, "27th Annual International Exhibition of Paintings," October 16-December 7, cat. 57.

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by George and Martin Baer and Ivan Le Lorraine Albright," July 23-October 11, 1931, no. 21.

Brookyn Museum, "Summer Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings," June 16-October 3, 1932, cat. 201 (as Heavy the Oar to Him Who is Tired, Heavy the Boat, Heavy the Sea).

Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 495 (as Heavy the Oar to Him who is Tired).

Chicago, Michigan Square Building, "Chicago Society of Artists Annual Exhibition," December 5, 1933-January 1, 1934, cat. 13.

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

Minnesota State Fair Arts Show, 1936, (no cat).

Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, "17th Annual Members' Exhibition," 1936, no cat.

Chicago, Findlay Galleries, "New Collectors Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Outstanding Chicago Area Artists," 1942 (as The Oarsman), cat. not found.

Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Art Institute, "Eighth Annual New Year Show," January 1-31, 1943, cat. 1.

Museum of Modern Art, "American Realists and Magic Realists," 1943, cat. 28.

Associated American Artist Galleries, New York, "First Joint Exhibition: The Albright Twins," October 27-November 10, 1945, cat. 4.

Associated American Artist Galleries, Chicago, "The Albright Twins First Joint Chicago Exhibition," March 29-April 17, 1946, cat. 5.

Colorado Springs FIne Arts Center, "New Accessions - U.S.A., Third Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings," July 2-September 4, 1950, cat. 13 (ill).

Milwaukee Art Institute, "55 Americans," September 9-October 23, 1955, cat. 2 (ill).

Art Institute of Chicago, "Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition," October 30-December 27, 1964, cat. 6 (ill. p. 27); traveled to Whitney Museum, February 3-March 21, 1965.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Works by Ivan L. ALbright from the Collection," October 21-December 10, 1978, cat. 6 (ill).

Berlin, Neue Gesellschaft fur bilende Kunst, "America: Traum und Depression 1920/40," November 9-December 28, 1980, cat. 1 (ill).

Art Institute of Chicago, "Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection," September 11-October 31, 1982, no cat.

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.