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Francis Chapin

Pink House

Lot Closed

March 17, 04:14 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

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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