Maya, Mirror of Illusions

Arts of the Americas

c. 1910

Arthur B. Davies (American, 1862–1928)

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Arthur B. Davies
Title: Maya, Mirror of Illusions
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.: c. 1910
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 66.4 × 101.9 cm (26 1/8 × 40 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Friends of American Art Collection
Reference Number: 1910.318

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Arthur B. Davies, Jan. 3–22, 1911, cat. 4.
Detroit Institute of Art, First Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, Apr. 9–May 31, 1915, cat. 111.
Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, June 2–Sept. 6, 1921, cat. 33.
Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, Paintings by Arthur B. Davies, Nov, 1923.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Exhibition of Forty Paintings presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 11.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Memorial Exhibition of the Works by Arthur B. Davies, Feb. 17–Mar. 30, 1930, cat. 95.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Special Memorial Exhibition of Works by Arthur B. Davies, May 1–25, 1930, cat. 41.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 448.
South Bend Art Association, American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948.
American Federation of Arts, From the Archives of American Art: the Role of the Macbeth Gallery, Oct. 1962–May 1963, cat. 7, traveled.
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dream Vision: the work of Arthur B. Davies, Mar. 17–May 10, 1980.
Glen Falls, New York, Hyde Collection, Arthur B. Davies: Dweller on the Threshold, June 17–Sept. 9, 2001.
Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art, Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880–1910, July 16–Dec. 11, 2005; Winston–Salem, North Carolina, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Mar. 24–July 16, 2006; Grey Art Gallery of New York University, Sept. 13–Dec. 9, 2006; Washington DC, Phillips Colelction, Feb. 17–May 20, 2007; Washington DC only.

With Macbeth Gallery, New York, by 1910 [Inventory Records, box 111, folder 26, Macbeth Gallery Records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1910.

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