Acrobats

Arts of the Americas

1953

John Rhoden (American, 1916-2001)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: John Rhoden
Title: Acrobats
Place: Rome (Object Probably made in)
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.: 1953
Medium: Bronze with stone base
Dimensions: 111.8 × 29.3 × 24.2 cm (44 1/16 × 11 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift from The John Walter Rhoden and Richanda Phillips Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Reference Number: 2024.1006

Galleria Schneider, Rhoden, exh. cat. (Rome: Istituto Grafico Tiberino, 1954), n.p., cat. 1, as Acrobati.
Fairweather-Garnet Gallery, Rhoden Sculpture, exh. pamphlet (Evanston, IL: Fairweather-Garnet Gallery, 1955), n.p., cat. 9.
Gallery 62, John Rhoden: Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York national Urban League, Inc., 1982), n.p., cat. 9 (ill.).
Brittany Webb, ed., Determined to Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden, exh. cat. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2023), 73, 75, 76.

Rome, Galleria Schneider, John Rhoden, Apr. 12–24, 1954, cat. 1, as Acrobati.
Evanston, IL, Fairweather-Garnet Gallery, Rhoden Sculpture, Jan. 24–Feb. 19, 1955, cat. 9.
New York, Interchurch Center, Works of Richanda and John Rhoden, May 24–June 25, 1971, no cat., no. 13.
New York, Gallery 62, National Urban League, John Rhoden: Sculpture, Nov. 8–Dec. 10, 1982.

The artist, New York; by descent to his wife, Richenda Rhoden (1917–2016; born Richenda Phillips), New York, 2001; by descent to the estate of John Walter Rhoden and Richenda Rhoden, New York, 2016; given to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2019; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.

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