Memories of the Past

Arts of the Americas

1927

Ivan Albright (American, 1897–1983)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Ivan Albright
Title: Memories of the Past
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.: 1927
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
Dimensions: 77.5 × 51.4 cm (30 1/2 × 20 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Ivan Albright
Reference Number: 1977.30
Copyright: © The Art Institute of Chicago.

Frederick A. Sweet, Ivan Albright: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1964), cat. 13.
Art Institute of Chicago, Works by Ivan L. Albright from the Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), cat. 4.
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. 4 (ill.).

Chicago, Walden Book Shop Gallery, The First Collected Exhibition of American Paintings by Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Aug. 15–Sept. 15, 1930, cat. 9.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by George and Martin Baer and Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, July 23–Oct. 11, 1931, no. 15.
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Old White Art Gallery, Greenbriar Hotel, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, July 1–Aug. 1, 1935, cat. 7.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 30–Dec. 27, 1964, cat. 13; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Feb. 3–Mar. 21, 1965.
Art Institute of Chicago, Works from the Collection by Ivan Albright, Oct. 21–Dec. 10, 1978, cat. 4.
Evanston, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Thinking Modern: Painting in Chicago 1910–1940, Jan. 18–Apr. 5, 1992, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright, Feb. 20–May 11, 1997, cat.; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ivan Albright: Magic Realist, June 10–Sept. 7, 1997.

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

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