Attraction

Arts of the Americas

1950

Brian Connelly
American, 1926–1963

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Brian Connelly
Title: Attraction
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.: 1950
Medium: Oil and tempera on panel
Inscriptions: Signed lower-left recto: "Brian 1950"
Dimensions: 50.8 × 61 cm (20 × 24 in.)
Credit Line: Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Fund
Reference Number: 1951.56

American–British Art Gallery, exhibition, Nov. 2–18, 1950, no. 12.
Art Institute, Sixtieth Annual American Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 25–Dec. 16, 1951, no. 31.
Springfield Illinois Art Association, Circuit Exhibition, Jan. 17–May 25, 1953.
Dallas, Museum of Fine Art, State Fair of Texas Art Exhibition Trompe l’Oeil Paintings That Fool the Eye by Masters from Vermeer to Dali, Oct. 10–25, 1953.
Santa Barbara, California, Museum of Fine Arts, exhibition, May 25–Oct. 16, 1954.
Lake Forest College, 100th Anniversary of Lake Forest College, June 9–17, 1957, no. 37.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].

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