Born in Snovsk

Contemporary Art

1962

Jules Olitski
American, born Russia (present-day Ukraine), 1922-2007

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Jules Olitski
Title: Born in Snovsk
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.: 1962
Medium: Magna on canvas
Inscriptions: Not signed on recto Signed, titled and dated on verso (canvas): "Born in Snovsk" / 11' x 7'6" / Jules Olitski / 1962 / Magna acrylic / paint + varnish / Bocour Paint Co.; Signed, titled and dated on verso (stretcher): "1962 / Born in Snovsk / J. Olitski / 11' x 7'6"
Dimensions: 335.3 × 228.6 cm (132 × 90 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Ford Foundation
Reference Number: 1964.72

A. James Speyer, 67th Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1964), n.p., cat. 75.
Kenworth Moffett, Jules Olitski, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts), 15 (ill.).
E.A. Carmean, Jr., The Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art 1960–1970, exh. cat. (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1974), 26, 42, 60, cat. 36 (ill.).

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 67th Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Feb. 28–Apr. 12, 1964, cat. 75.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Jules Olitski, Apr. 6–May 13, 1973, cat. 9; Buffalo, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, May 31–July 29, 1973; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sept. 7–Nov. 3, 1973.
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art 1960–1970, Jan. 15–Mar. 10, 1974, cat. 36.

The artist. The Ford Foundation, New York; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 18, 1964.

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