James Vibert, Sculptor

1907

Ferdinand Hodler
Swiss, 1853-1918

Status: On View, Gallery 246
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Ferdinand Hodler
Title: James Vibert, Sculptor
Place: Switzerland (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.: 1907
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: signed, l.r.: "1907 F. Hodler"
Dimensions: 64.7 × 66 cm (25 1/2 × 26 in.)
Credit Line: Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1926.212
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Loosli, Carl Albert, Ferdinand Hodler, vol. 2 (Zurich: Rascher, 1920), pl. 97.
de Mandach, Conrad, Hodler Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, exh. cat. (Bern: Kunstmuseum Bern, 1921), cat. 370.
Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 14 (April 1925), p. 32.
Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1926), pp. 18, 19 (ill.), 53.
Zabel, M. D., “An American Gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26 (December 1928), pp. 232 (ill.), 235.
Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial, from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1929), pp. 26-27 (ill.), 59.
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1934), cat. 319.
Wheeler, Monroe, 20th Century Portraits, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1942), no cat. no., p. 58 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial, from the Birch Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), pp. 30-31 (ill.), 57.
Myers, Bernard Samuel, The German Expressionists: A Generation in Revolt (New York: Praeger, 1957), p. 28 (pl. 7).
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 217.
Speyer, A. James, and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 46, no. 2B3.
Brettell, Richard R., “The Bartletts and the Grande Jatte: Collecting Modern Painting in the 1920s,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), p. 14.
Heller, Reinhold, “Ferdinand Hodler: A Unique Note in the Birch Bartlett Collection,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), pp. 166-87, fig. 1 (color ill.).
Dorn, Roland, et al., Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits, exh. cat. (Detroit Institute of Arts/Thames & Hudson, 2000), pp. 238, fig. 214 (color ill.), 269.

Bern, Kunstmuseum, Hodler Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, August 20-October 23, 1921, cat. 370.
Boston, Art Club, 1925.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Exhibition of French Paintings from a Well-Known Collection, 1925, no cat.
Chicago, Art Institute, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 319.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, 20th Century Portraits, December 9, 1942-January 24, 1943, no cat. no., p. 58 (ill.); traveled to Baltimore Museum of Art, February 12-March 7, 1943, and Worcester Art Museum, March 21-April 18, 1943.

Willy Russ-Young (1877–1959), Serrières-Neuchâtel, Switzerland, by 1921 [verso label]. Sold through Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, to Frederic Clay Bartlett (1873–1953), Chicago, July 1924 [invoice from Galerie Fischer to Frederic Clay Bartlett, July 16, 1924, copy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.

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