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1940

Ivan Albright
American, 1897-1983

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Artist: Ivan Albright
Title: Oh God, Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea
Origin: United States
Date: 1940
Medium: Gouache, with touches of smearing, on ivory watercolor paper
Inscriptions: Signed "Ivan Le Lorraine Albright 1940" lr
Dimensions: 557 x 735 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Ivan Albright
Reference Number: 1977.32
Copyright: © The Art Institute of Chicago.

AIC Bulletin, XXXVI (March 1942) 38, repro.
Art News, March 1-14, 1943, p 120, r.
Masterpieces in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1952), n.p.

1941: 20th Century International Exhibition of Watercolor, #?.
1940: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 38th Annual Watercolor and Print Exhibition (Philadelphia W. Col. Pa.)
1942: Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
1943: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
1943: Museum of Modern Art, Realists.
1949: Art Gallery of Toronto.
March, 1951: at a school in Winnetka, IL.
1959: sent to Albright residence; returned in 1977 (see acquisition note).
From The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: “IVAN ALBRIGHT”, shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, from February 20-May 11, 1997; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, from June 9-September 7, 1997,
cat. no. 35, reprod. in color pg. 122.

Sold by the artist to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1941; deaccessioned by exchange to the artist, 1959; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.

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