Showcase Doll

Arts of the Americas

1931–32

Ivan Albright (American, 1897–1983)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Ivan Albright
Title: Showcase Doll
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.: 1931–1932
Medium: Charcoal and oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: Ivan Albright
Dimensions: 88.9 × 137.2 cm (35 × 54 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Ivan Albright
Reference Number: 1977.24
Copyright: © The Art Institute of Chicago.

Sarah Kelly Oehler, ed., Ivan Albright Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2019), https://www.artic.edu/digitalalbright, cat. 12 (ill.).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Americans 1943: Realists and Magic Realists, Feb. 10–Mar. 21, 1943, not in cat., but appears in installation view and on MoMA’s master checklist (handwritten in as The Showcase Doll That Was Never Painted).
Art Institute of Chicago, 48th Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Jan. 27–Mar. 5, 1944, cat. 5 (as The Show Case Doll That Was Never Painted).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Painting in the United States, Oct. 12–Dec. 10, 1944, cat. 65 (as The Showcase Doll That Was Never Painted).
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 30–Dec. 27, 1964, cat. 50, ill.; Whitney Museum, Feb. 3–Mar. 31, 1965.
Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center, winter 1975–6.
Art Institute of Chicago, Works by Ivan Albright from the Collection, Oct. 21–Dec. 10, 1978, cat. 11.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright: Magic Realist, Feb. 20–May 11, 1997; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 10–Sept. 7, 1997.
Art Institute of Chicago, Flesh: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago, May 4–Aug. 5, 2018, no cat.

Ivan Albright (1897–1983); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.

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