Jungle Symphony

Modern Art

1921

Charles Georges Dufresne
French, 1876-1938

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Charles Georges Dufresne
Title: Jungle Symphony
Place: France (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.: 1921
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: Dufresne
Dimensions: 100.4 × 81.6 cm (39 1/2 × 32 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
Reference Number: 1954.310

The Arts Club of Chicago: Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, exh. cat. (Arts Club, 1929), n.p., cat. 60 (as Jungle by Maurice Dufresne).
22 Important Contemporary Painting, exh. cat. (Reinhardt Galleries, 1932), n.p., cat. 15 (as Landscape with Figures, 1927).
“In the Art Field,” Creative Art 10, no. 2 (February 1932): p. 148 (ill., as Landscape with Figures).
C.J. Bulliet, The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures (Civici/Friede, 1936), n.p., fig. 204 (ill.).
Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1936), cat. 14 (as Algiers).
Charles C. Cunningham, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 132.
A. James Speyer, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 7; 41, cat. 1F8; n.p. (ill.).
Charles Dufresne: 1876-1938, Rétrospective, exh. cat. (Musée d’Art moderne Troyes, 1987), n.p. (ill.).

Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, Jan. 4–18, 1929, n.p., cat. 60 (as Jungle by Maurice Dufresne).
New York, Reinhardt Galleries, 22 Important Contemporary Paintings, Jan. 23–Feb. 20, 1932, n.p., cat. 15 (as Landscape with Figures, 1927).
Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, Dec. 9–31, 1936, cat. 14 (as Algiers).

Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (1878–1954), Chicago and Burlington, VT, by 1929 [Chicago 1929]; by descent to estate of Joseph Winterbotham, Jr., 1954; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1954.

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