Three Love Birds

Arts of the Americas

1930

Ivan Albright (American, 1897–1983)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Ivan Albright
Title: Three Love Birds
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.: 1930
Medium: Charcoal and oil on canvas
Dimensions: 199.4 × 106.7 cm (78 1/2 × 42 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Ivan Albright
Reference Number: 1977.38
Copyright: © The Art Institute of Chicago.

Frederick A. Sweet, Ivan Albright: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1964), cat. 49.
Art Institute of Chicago, Works by Ivan L. Albright from the Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978).
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. 8 (ill.).

Chicago, The Arts Club, 1936.
Art Institute of Chicago, 47th Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Mar. 11–Apr. 25, 1943, cat. 5.
New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, First Joint Exhibition: The Albright Twins, Oct. 22–Nov. 10, cat. 6.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 30–Dec. 27, 1964, cat. 49; 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.
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.
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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