Cave Canem

Arts of the Americas

1944

John D. Graham (American, born Kyiv, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, 1886–1961)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: John Graham
Title: Cave Canem
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.: 1944
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed on back: CAVE CANEM/GRAHAM/XXXXIV
Dimensions: 76.2 × 72.1 cm (30 × 24 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
Reference Number: 1973.60

Katherine Kuh and Dennis Adrian, The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), 63, fig. 52, cat. 66 (ill.), 110, cat. 66.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 88, ill.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 309–10, cat. 154 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, Feb. 23–Apr. 14, 1985, cat. 66.

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