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Contemporary Art

1958/59

Jack Tworkov
American, born Poland, 1900–1982

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Jack Tworkov
Title: Height
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.: 1958–1959
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 193.7 × 183.5 cm (76 1/4 × 72 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Lannan Foundation
Reference Number: 1997.156

Stable Gallery, Tworkov, exh. brochure (New York: Stable Gallery, 1959), n.p.
Edward Bryant, Jack Tworkov, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1964), 15, 53, cat. 37, n.p. (color ill.).
Stephanie Skestos, “Checklist of the Lannan Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 1 (1999), 97, cat. 81 (ill.).

New York, Stable Gallery, Tworkov, Apr. 6–25, 1959, no cat. no.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jack Tworkov: A Retrospective Exhibition, Mar. 25–May 3, 1964, cat. 37; Washington, D.C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art, May 8–June 21, 1964; Pasadena, CA, Pasadena Art Museum, July 6–Aug. 16, 1964; San Francisco Museum of Art, Aug. 31–Oct. 4, 1964; Austin, TX, University Art Museum at University of Texas, Oct. 18–Nov. 29, 1964; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Jan. 4–Feb. 7, 1965; Waltham, MA, Poses Institute of Fine Arts at Brandeis University, Feb. 22–Apr. 4, 1965.

The artist; sold through Stable Gallery, New York, to J. Patrick Lannan, New York, Apr. 12, 1959 [inventory card kept by artist, copy in curatorial object file]; gifted to the Lannan Foundation, Lake Worth, FL, later Los Angeles, Dec. 1960 [Lannan cataloging sheet, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 14, 1997.

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