Composition in Blue

• E. Tériade, Fernand Léger (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1928), pl. 63, as Composition en bleu.
• Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1929), n. p., cat. 66, as Composition en bleu.
• C. J. Bulliet, “Art’s Club Show is Going Visiting,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World (January 15, 1929), p. 3 (ill.), as Composition en bleu.
• Waldemar George, “Fernand Léger,” The Arts 15, 5 (1929), p. 311 (ill.), as Composition in Blue, 1927.
• Museum of Modern Art, Summer Exhibition: Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1930), p. 6, cat. 59, as Composition in Blue.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 84, cat. 781, as Composition in Blue.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Rearrangement of the Painting Galleries,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 7 (1933), p. 117.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Report for the Year 1937 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1937), p. 45.
• Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings (Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1938), pp. X, 82, no. 89, pl. L, as Composition in Blue.
• Toledo Museum of Art, Contemporary Movements in European Painting, exh. cat. (Toledo, Ohio: Toledo Museum of Art, 1938), n. p., cat. 57 (ill.).
• Willi Baumeister, “Fernand Léger,” L’Age Nouveau 42 (October 1949), n. p., fig. 7, as Epoque Mécanique, 1925.
• “To Dedicate Art at New Building,” The Lawrentian (May 26, 1950), p. 4, as Composition in Blue.
• Katharine Kuh, Fernand Léger, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1953), p. 86, cat. 36, as Composition in Blue.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 257, as Composition in Blue, 21–27.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Comments on Selected Paintings in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), p. 39, as Composition in Blue, 1921–1927.
• A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 51, no. 2D11, as Composition in Blue, 1921–27.
• Galerie Gmurzynska, Fernand Léger, exh. cat. (Cologne: Galerie Gmurzynska, 1985), p. 40, as Eléments mécaniques, 1927.
• Galerie Gmurzynska, Fernand Léger Schlüsselwerke, exh. cat. (Cologne: Galerie Gmurzynska, 1990), p. 54, as Eléments mécaniques, 1927.
• Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné 1925–1928 (Paris: Adrien Maeght, 1993), pp. 216–217, no. 518 (ill.), as Composition en bleu, 1927.
• Carolyn Lanchner, “Fernand Léger: American Connections,” in Carolyn Lanchner, Fernand Léger, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1998), p. 68, n. 203, as Composition in Blue.

• Chicago, Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, January 4–18, 1929, n. p., cat. 66.
• Chicago, Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Exhibition of Modern European and of Antique Oriental Art Loaned by Members of the Renaissance Society, April 7–21, 1930, cat. 62, as Abstract.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Summer Exhibition: Retrospective, June –September 1930, p. 6 (cat. 59), as Composition in Blue.
• Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, November 1931.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 84, cat. 781.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Fernand Léger, December 19, 1935–January 19, 1936, not in cat (organized by the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago).
• Toledo Museum of Art, Contemporary Movements in European Painting, November 6–December 11, 1938, n. p., cat. 57 (ill.)
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Winterbotham Collection of 20th Century European Paintings, October 8–November 6, 1949, no cat.
• Milwaukee Art Institute, Exhibition in Connection with Exhibition of Industrial Designs by Brooks Stevens, January 10–February 19, 1950, no cat.
• Appleton Wis., Worcester Art Center, Lawrence College, A Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters of the Worcester Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago, June 1–12, 1950, no cat.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Fernand Léger, April 2–May 17, 1953, p. 86, cat. 36; traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Art, June 12–August 30, 1953, and New York, Museum of Modern Art, October 21, 1953–January 3, 1954.
• Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no. 

The artist; Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928 [letters from Charles H. Worcester, Sept. 21, 1928 and John Storrs, Sept. 11, 1928 and Oct. 26, 1928, in the curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

• 36  Fernand Léger, Composition in Blue, 1921–27