The Old Farm Hand

Arts of the Americas

1926

James Ormsbee Chapin
American, 1887–1975

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: James Ormsbee Chapin
Title: The Old Farm Hand
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.: 1926
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: signed, u.r.: "James Chapin 26"
Dimensions: 72.5 × 60.1 cm (28 1/2 × 23 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund
Reference Number: 1927.1434

Art Institute of Chicago, Fortieth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 27–Dec. 14, 1927, cat. 45 (ill.).
Art institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 557.
Art Institute of Chicago, Half a Century of American Art, Nov. 16, 1939–Jan. 7, 1940, cat. 34.
Dallas Museum of Art, 200 Years of American Painting, Oct. 5–Nov. 4, 1946.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].

Half Century Am. A. (AIC) 557

Unknown no. 34

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