Blue Rafters

Arts of the Americas

c. 1916

Frederic Clay Bartlett (American, 1873–1953)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Frederic Clay Bartlett
Title: Blue Rafters
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. 1916
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed recto, bottom-right corner, on tablecloth, in black pigment: “Frederic Clay Bartlett”.
Dimensions: 71.1 × 76.8 cm (28 × 30 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Friends of American Art Collection
Reference Number: 1919.107

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 126, cat. 436.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, exh. cat. (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 2.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 17.
Judith A. Barter and Lynn Springer, Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820–1940, exh. cat. (St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum, 1977), 139, cat. 91 (ill.).
Elizabeth Kennedy, ed., Chicago Modern, 1893–1945: Pursuit of the New, exh. cat. (Chicago: Terra Museum of American Art, 2004), 22, 28, cat. 9 (ill.).

Rochester, NY, Memorial Art Gallery, Paintings by Frederic Clay Bartlett, Oct. 1917, cat. 44 [pamphlet only].
Cincinnati Art Museum, Special Exhibition of Paintings by Frederic Clay Bartlett, Feb. 1918,, cat. 17 [pamphlet only].
Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by Frederic Clay Bartlett, Jan. 7–Feb. 6, 1919, cat. 11 [downloadable pamphlet available].
Detroit, MI, Michigan State Fair, Aug. 26, 1921.
Kansas City, MO, Nov. 8, 1921.
McKee, AL, Feb. 24–Apr. 10, 1925.
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. 2.
Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 5, 1935–Mar. 3, 1936, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois: In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, June 15–Sept. 8, 1968, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Springfield, IL, Illinois State Museum, Painters and Sculptors of Illinois, Oct. 30–Dec. 12, 1971, no cat.; Champaign, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, Feb. 6-Feb. 27, 1972; Peoria, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Mar. 10–Apr. 16, 1972; Chicago Historical Society, Apr. 26–June 24, 1972.
St. Louis Art Museum, Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820–1940, Feb. 18–Apr. 10, 1977, cat. 91.
Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago Modern, 1893–1945: Pursuit of the New, July 17, 2004–Oct. 31, 2004, cat. 9.

The artist; by exchange to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1919 [Institutional Archives, Day Book 9, 9; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1919.

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