Trinity

Arts of the Americas

1941

Charles Howard
American, 1899–1978

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Charles Howard
Title: Trinity
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.: 1941
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: No signature
Dimensions: 61 × 86.4 cm (24 × 34 in.)
Credit Line: Wilson L. Mead Fund
Reference Number: 1945.292

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), cat. 77. 132.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States, p. 78 (ill.).
San Francisco Museum of Art, Sixty–Third Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, Oil, Tempera on Panel, Sculpture, Oct. 20–Nov. 14, 1943, cat. 38.
Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty–Sixth Annual American Exhibition of Paintings, Oct. 25, 1945–Jan. 1, 1946, cat. 70, pl.XIII.
London, Tate Gallery, American Painting From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, Jun–July 1946, cat. 118.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Charles Howard, Retrospective Exhibition, 1925–1946, May 10–June 9, 1946, p. 118.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, cat. by Andrew Carnduff Ritchie; Jan. 23–Mar. 25, 1951, cat. 48, p. 129 (ill.).
Lake Forest College, A Century of American Painting, Masterpieces Loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–16, 1957, cat. 26.
Oakland Museum, The Howards, First Family of Bay Area Modernism, cat. by Stacey Moss, May 14–Aug. 7, 1988, p. 114.
Laguna Art Museum, Pursuit of the Marvelous: Stanley William Hayter, Charles Howard, Gordon Onslow Ford, Oct. 5, 1990–Jan. 13, 1991, p. 28 (ill.).
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Charles Howard: A Margin of Chaos, June 21–Oct. 1, 2017, cat. 82.

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