Train Crossing a Street

Prints and Drawings

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Gino Severini
Italian, 1883-1966

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Artist: Gino Severini
Title: Train Crossing a Street
Place: Italy (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.: 1915–1916
Medium: Charcoal, with black Conté crayon and touches of black chalk, over graphite on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Gino Severini"
Dimensions: 55.5 × 46.4 cm (21 7/8 × 18 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.903
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Joan M. Lukach, “Severini’s 1917 Exhibition at Stieglitz’s ‘291’,” Burlington Magazine 113:817 (April 1971), pp. 199, 200, 201, 202, and 205, figs. 31, 35.
Piero Pacini, Gino Severini: disegni e incisioni (Florence, 1977), n.p., cat. 17, pl. 17.
Fagioli Dell’Arco, Gino Severini: prima e dopo l’opera (Florence, 1983), pp. 34 and 35, fig. C.
Daniela Fonti, Gino Severini: Catalogo ragionato (Milan, 1988), p. 191 (ill.), cat. 227.
Sandy Brooke, Hooked on Drawing (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1996), p. 35(ill.).

New York, Gallery of the Photo Secession (Gallery 291), “Severini,” March 6–17, 1917, cat. 6.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 157.
Paris, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, “Paris–New York,” June 1–September 19, 1977, p. 265 (ill.).
New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, “Severini futurista: 1912–1917,” October 20, 1995–January 7, 1996, pp. 47, 48, 96, 97 (ill.), and 99, cat. 21; traveled to the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, February 10–April 9, 1996.
Paris, France, Musée d’Orsay, “New York et l’art moderne: Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle, 1905–1930,” October 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, pp. 178 (ill.) and 326, cat. 99.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.

The artist to Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, 1917 [Lukach 1969]; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O’Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.

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