Modern Discoveries
Modern Discoveries
Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago
Pink House
Lot Closed
March 17, 04:14 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago
Francis Chapin
1899 - 1965
Pink House
signed Francis Chapin (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 by 25 ⅛ in.
76.2 by 63.8 cm.
Executed in 1933.
Acquired from the artist in 1933 by the present owner
Josephine Hancock Logan, Sanity in Art, Chicago, 1937, p. 91, illustrated
Paul Schofield, “The Midwest Scene Comes of Age,” Parnassus 9, no. 4, April 1937, p. 14, illustrated
Briggs Dyer, “Francis Chapin and His Art,” Magazine of Art, ed. 34, no. 6, June–July 1941, p. 305, illustrated
"Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago," Art Institute of Chicago Newsletter, 1961, p. 75
"Art in Illinois in the Art Institute,” Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago, no. 3, May–Aug 1968, p. 9, illustrated
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty–Seventh Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, 1933, no. 46, illustrated
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 528, p. 69
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture from Sixteen American Cities, 1933, no. 29, illustrated
Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 1934
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 129th Annual Exhibition, 1934, no. 29
Muskegon, Michigan, Hackley Gallery of Art, 1936
Appleton, Wisconsin, Lawrence College, Loan Exhibition of American Paintings, 1937, no. 17
Chicago, Englewood High School, 1948
Chicago, Jahn Elementary School, 1950
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois: In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, 1968
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Reflections on the Milwaukee Journal Gallery of Wisconsin Art, 1982–1983