The Wave

Arts of the Americas

c. 1912

Chester Beach
American, 1881–1956

Currently Off View: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Chester Beach
Title: The Wave
Origin: United States
Date: c. 1912
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 78.7 × 37.5 × 31.8 cm (31 × 14 3/4 × 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Daniel D. Van De Grift
Reference Number: 1922.86

International Exhibition of Modern Art, exh. cat. (New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc., 1913), cat. 655.
International Exhibition of Modern Art, 2nd ed., exh. cat. (New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc., 1913), cat. 8.
Milton W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1963), 182, 221, no. 655.
American Masters of Sculpture, exh. cat. (Indianapolis: Art Association of Indianapolis, 1965), no. 36.

New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art, Feb 17–Mar 15, 1913, cat. 655; The Art Institute of Chicago, Mar 24–Apr 16, 1913 (cat. 8).
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Special exhibitions of works by the following artists: paintings by John W. Alexander; sculpture by Chester Beach; paintings by California artists; paintings by Wilson Irvine; paintings by Edward W. Redfield; paintings, drawings and sketches by Maurice Sterne, Dec 12, 1916–Jan 2, 1917, cat. 75.
Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, American Masters of Sculpture, Oct 2–31, 1965, cat. 36.

Purchased from the artist at the Armory Show by Dr. Daniel D. Van De Grift on April 15, 1913 [Walt Kuhn to Walter Pach, April 15, 1913. Armory Show Records, Organizer’s Letters, Box 1, Folder 70. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution]; donated to the Art Institute of Chicago [Permanent receipt, R39/1, February 16, 1922]

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