Portrait of Mary Block

Arts of the Americas

1955–57

Ivan Albright (American, 1897–1983)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Ivan Albright
Title: Portrait of Mary Block
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.: 1955–1957
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: Ivan Albright
Dimensions: 99.4 × 76.2 cm (39 1/8 × 30 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
Reference Number: 1959.7
Copyright: © The Art Institute of Chicago.

Art Institute of Chicago, Works by Ivan L. Albright from the Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), cat. 28.
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. 20 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at People, Nov. 13, 1958–Jan. 11, 1959, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 30–Dec. 27, 1964; New York, Whitney Museum, Feb. 3–Mar. 21, 1965, cat. 39, ill. p. 51.
Art Institute of Chicago, Works from the Collection by Ivan Albright, Oct. 21–Dec. 10, 1978, cat. 28.
Evanston, Terra Museum of American Art, Woman, Feb. 18–Apr. 22, 1984.
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.

Commissioned by Leigh (1905–1987) and Mary Block (1905–1981), Chicago, 1955/57; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.

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