Flesh (Smaller Than Tears Are the Little Blue Flowers)

Arts of the Americas

1928

Ivan Albright (American, 1897–1983)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Ivan Albright
Title: Flesh (Smaller Than Tears Are the Little Blue Flowers)
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.: 1928
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: Ivan Le Lorraine Albright.
Dimensions: 91.4 × 61 cm (36 × 24 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Ivan Albright
Reference Number: 1969.814
Copyright: © The Art Institute of Chicago.

Art Institute of Chicago, Works by Ivan L. Albright from the Collection, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), cat. 5.
Sarah Kelly Oehler, ed., Ivan Albright Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2019), https://www.artic.edu/digitalalbright, cat. 5 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, 33rd Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Feb. 7–Mar. 10, 1929, cat. 4, ill.
Chicago, Stevens Hotel, The Chicago Society of Artists, Autumn Exhibition, Nov. 17–Dec. 1, 1929, cat. 2.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by George and Martin Baer and Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, July 13–Oct. 11, 1931, no. 11.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The 139th Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Jan. 23–Feb. 27, 1944, cat. 66, as Smaller Than Tears are the Little Blue Flowers.
Whitney Museum, 1944 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Nov. 14–Dec. 12, 1944, cat. 1, as Smaller Than Tears are the Little Blue Flowers.
New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, First Joint Exhibition: The Albright Twins, Oct. 22–Nov. 10, 1945, cat. 10, as Smaller Than Tears are the Little Blue Flowers.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 30–Dec. 27, 1964; Whitney Museum, Feb. 3–Mar. 21, 1965, cat. 2 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Works from the Collection by Ivan Albright, Oct. 21–Dec. 10, 1978, cat. 5.
Chicago, Richard L. Feigen Gallery, Ivan Albright, Sept. 9–Oct. 15, 1988.
New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art Revisited, Oct. 14–Nov. 8, 1989, cat. p. 39, ill.; Phyllis Kind, Chicago, Dec. 1, 1989–Jan. 9, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright: Magic Realist, Feb. 20–May 11, 1997; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 10–Sept. 7, 1997.
Art Institute of Chicago, Flesh: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago, May 4–Aug. 5, 2018, no cat.

The artist, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.

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