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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, October 29-December 13, 1931, cat. 97, pl. 97 (Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Medal).

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Morris Kantor, Dec. 22, 1931-Jan. 17, 1932, no cat.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 573.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 601.

NY, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Art of Today, Jan. 3-31, 1936. Late loan, not in catalogue but confirmed by archival documentation.

Art Institute of Chicago, Half a Century of American Art, November 16, 1939-January 7, 1940, cat. 88, pl. XLVII.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Romantic Painting in America, Nov. 15, 1943-Feb. 16, 1944, cat. 19, ill. p. 104, cat. by James Thrall Soby and Dorothy C. Miller; traveled to Milwaukee, Wisc., Milwaukee Art Institute, Mar. 3-31, 1944; Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, Apr. 15-June 20, 1944; San Francisco Museum of Art, Aug. 15-Sept. 17, 1944; Portland, Ore., Portland Art Museum, Oct. 1-Oct. 29, 1944; Seattle, Wash., Seattle Art Museum, Nov. 10-Dec. 10, 1944; St. Louis, Mo., City Museum of St. Louis, Jan. 2-30, 1945; Minneapolis, Minn., University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Feb. 13-Mar. 13, 1945; St. Paul, Minn., St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, Apr. 1-29, 1945.

Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Twelve Contemporary Americans, Oct. 4-Nov. 13, 1945, no cat. number on checklist.

London, The Tate Gallery, American Painting for the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, June-July 1946, cat. 126.

Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Morris Kantor Retrospective, June 3-27, 1965, cat. 4.

Columbus, Ohio State University, America, October 13-31, 1968, no cat.

Reno, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, 1931 America: The Artist’s View, September 12-October 30, 1982, cat. essay by Merle Schipper; traveled to San Diego State University, November 20-December 18, 1982, pp. 14, 19 (unnumbered checklist).

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SO 22251, 12/21/1933- Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, for exhibit. [I think this is a mistake, and is the 1935 exh.]

Publication History

"'Odd' Painting Wins 1st Prize at Show Here," Chicago Daily News, Month illeg. 29, 1931. Probably Oct.

Eleanor Jewett, "Fine Statues on Display at Art Institute," Chicago Tribune, Oct. 20, 1931.

Eleanor Jewett, American Exhibition at Institute: Jury Awards First Prize of $2,500 to Morris Kantor for His Canvas, 'Haunted House,'" Chicago Tribune, Nov. 1, 1931, p. G4.

"Chicago's Annual Draws Eyes of Fighters for American Art," Art Digest 6, 3 (Nov. 1, 1931), pp. 3-4, ill. p. 3.

“Paintings by Morris Kantor,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 25, 9 (December 1931), cover ill., p. 127.

C. J. Bulliet, "Art Institute of Chicago Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture," Creative Art 9 (December 1931), pp. 493-5, ill. p. 493.

"The Forty-fourth Annual at Chicago," American Magazine of Art 23 (Dec. 1931), p. 487, ill. p. 486.

Daniel Catton Rich, “Fifty Years at Chicago,” Magazine of Art 32, 12 (December 1939), p. 721.

Morris Kantor, "Ends and Means," Magazine of Art, 33 (March 1940), ill. p. 143.

Anita Ventura, “The Paintings of Morris Kantor,” Arts 30, 7 (May 1956), p. 31.

Matthew Baigell, "The Beginnings of 'The American Wave' and the Depression," Art Journal 27, 4 (Summer 1968), pp. 391-92, ill. p. 392.

Matthew Baigell, The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930's (Praeger Publishers, 1974), p. 21, ill. 7, p. 22.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 80.

Ownership History

The artist; purchased by the Art Institute in 1931.