A Boy Named Alligator

Arts of the Americas

1930

Kathleen Blackshear
American, 1897–1988

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Kathleen Blackshear
Title: A Boy Named Alligator
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1930
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 56.2 × 46 cm (22 1/8 × 18 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Terrell, Sr.
Reference Number: 1991.160

Carole Tormollan, A Tribute to Kathleen Blackshear, exh. cat. (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, 1990), 16, ill. fig. 4, 17.
Patricia Trenton, ed., Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890–1945, exh. cat. (Autry Museum of Western Heritage in association with the University of California Press, 1995), 201, ill. pl. 200.
Elizabeth Kennedy, ed., Chicago Modern, 1893–1945: Pursuit of the New, exh. cat. (Terra Museum of American Art and Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2004), 92 (ill.).

Chicago, Increase Robinson Studio Gallery, Diana Court, Michigan Square, The Chicago Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, Nov. 1–22, 1930, cat. 9, as Alligator.
Chicago, The Palmer House Exhibition Hall, Chicago Artists Exhibition in Connection with Jubilee Week, May 11–20, 1931, cat. 95, as Alligator.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, A Tribute to Kathleen Blackshear, Dec. 7, 1990–Jan. 9, 1991, cat. 3, fig. 3, 16–17.
Evanston, IL, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Thinking Modern: Painting in Chicago, 1910–1940, Jan. 18–Apr. 5, 1992, cat. 32
Los Angeles, CA, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890–1945, Oct. 14, 1995–Jan. 28, 1996, pl. 200, pp. 196, 201; Tulsa, OK, Gilcrease Museum, Mar. 2–May 26, 1996; Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, June 29–Sept. 22, 1996; Utah, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Oct. 26, 1996–Jan. 19, 1997.
Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago Modern, 1893–1945: Pursuit of the New, July 17–Oct. 31, 2004, cat. 13, 92 (ill.).

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Terrell, Sr., Navasota, Tex., given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

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