I Walk To and Fro through Civilization and I Talk as I Walk (Follow Me, the Monk)
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United States (Artist's nationality)
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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. 1 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by George and Martin Baer and Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 1931, no. 24 (as He Verily Loveth Me and I Him).
Chicago, Grant Park Art Fair, 1933 (as Verily, Verily He Loveth Me and I Him).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 128th Annual Exhibition, Jan. 24–Mar. 19, 1933, cat. 116 (as Verily, Verily He Loveth Me and I Him).
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Old White Art Gallery, Greenbriar Hotel, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, July 1–Aug. 1, 1935, cat, 12 (as Verily, Verily He Loveth Me and I Him).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, American Realists and Magic Realists, 1943, cat. 24 (as I Walked to and fro through Civilization and I Talk as I Walk).
New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, First Joint Exhibition: The Albright Twins, Mar. 29–Apr. 17, 1946, cat. 8 (as I Walked to and fro through Civilization and I Talk as I Walk).
Chicago, Riccardo’s Restaurant and Gallery, solo exhibition, Feb. 1953.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 31–Dec. 27, 1964, cat. 12; Whitney Museum, Feb. 3–Mar. 31, 1965 (as I Walk to and fro through Civilization and I Talk as I Walk [Follow Me, the Monk]).
Art Institute of Chicago, Works by Ivan L. Albright in the Collection, Oct. 21–Dec. 19, cat. 1 (as I Walk to and fro through Civilization and I Talk as I Walk [Follow Me, the Monk]).
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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