A Small Tower (Moonlight)

Modern Art

c. 1911/12

James Pryde
Scottish, 1869-1941

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: James Pryde
Title: A Small Tower (Moonlight)
Place: Scotland (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.: 1906–1917
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40.7 × 31.2 cm (16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Porter Collection
Reference Number: 1927.532

International Exhibition of Modern Art, exh. cat. (New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc., 1913), cat. 399.
International Exhibition of Modern Art, 2nd ed., exh. cat. (New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc., 1913), cat. 299.
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 167, as Moonlight.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), p. 361.
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1913 Armory Show—50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963, exh. cat. (New York: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963), p. 20, no. 399.

New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art, February 17–March 15, 1913, cat. 399; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 24–April 16, 1913 (cat. 299).
Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1913 Armory Show—50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963, February 17–March 31, 1963, p. 200, no. 399; traveled to New York, Armory of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, April 6–28, 1963.
Art Institute of Chicago, Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions, June 20–September 27, 2015.

George F. Porter, purchased at the International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show), New York, March 7, 1913 [Walter Pach’s sales ledger, Archives of American Art]; by descent to his wife Mima de Manziarly Porter, 1927 [“Porter Wills $2,300,000 to His Widow,” Chicago Daily Tribune, March 4, 1927, in curatorial file]; donated as part of the George F. Porter collection at the Art Institute [Permanent receipt, R3314/4, April 30, 1927, in curatorial file]

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