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Title:Fleeting Time Thou Hast Left Me Old
Artist:Ivan Albright (American, North Harvey, Illinois 1897–1983 Woodstock, Vermont)
Date:1928–29
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:30 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (76.8 x 51.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1950
Object Number:50.95
Inscription: Signed (lower left): Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
the artist, Chicago (until 1950; sold to MMA)
Art Institute of Chicago. "Forty-Third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture," October 30–December 14, 1930, no. 4 (awarded Honorable Mention for Figure).
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery. "Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists. A Memorial Group of the Work of Samuel Halpert and a Group of Bronzes by Anna Glenny Dunbar," April 26–June 22, 1931.
New York. American Fine Arts Society. "Second National Exhibition of American Art," June 16–July 31, 1937.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Half a Century of American Art," November 16, 1939–January 7, 1940, no. 5 (lent by the artist).
New York. National Academy of Design. "120th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," December 4–21, 1945, no. 67.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 3).
Los Angeles. Pan Pacific Auditorium. "6th Annual National Construction Industries Exposition and Home Show," June 14–24, 1951 [loan extended to the Tower Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall until August 10, 1951], no catalogue.
Hempstead, N. Y. Hofstra College. "Metropolitan Museum Masterpieces," June 26–September 1, 1952, brochure no. 43.
Seattle Art Museum. "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," February 4–April 5, 1953, unnum. brochure (as "Fleeting Time, Thou Hast Made Me Old").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Painting, 1754–1954," December 18, 1953–September 1954, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Columbia Bicentennial Exhibition," October 28, 1954–April 18, 1955, no catalogue.
Lincoln. University of Nebraska. "From Realism to Reality in Recent American Painting," October 17–November 16, 1958, unnumbered cat. (p. 73).
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Art Center. November 21, 1958–January 15, 1959.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Ivan Albright: A Retrospective Exhibition," October 30–December 27, 1964, no. 9 (lists model as Mr. McCain).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Ivan Albright: A Retrospective Exhibition," February 3–March 21, 1965, no. 9.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego. "Twentieth Century American Art," February 23–March 24, 1968 (added to errata list of exhibition cat.).
New York. American Academy of Arts and Letters. May 28–June 23, 1968.
Binghamton, N.Y. Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences. "Time, Nature, and the Arts," January 14–March 4, 1973, unnumbered cat.
New York Cultural Center. "Grand Reserves: An Exhibition of 235 Objects from the Reserves of Fifteen New York Museum and Public Collections," October 24–December 8, 1974, no. 149.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch. "An American Dream World: Romantic Realism 1930–1955," January 30–March 5, 1975, unnum. brochure (as "Fleeting Time, Thou Hast Left Me Old," 1929–30).
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805–1976," April 22–December 31, 1976, no. 269.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Painting: 1905–1950," April 19–October 7, 1991, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "As They Were: 1900–1929," April 9–September 8, 1996, no catalogue.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Ivan Albright," February 20–May 11, 1997, no. 14.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Ivan Albright: Magic Realist," June 10–September 7, 1997, no. 14.
Geery Smith. "Quality Stressed in Exhibit at Albright Gallery." Art News 29 (May 30, 1931), p. 19.
Howard Devree. "American Cross Section: The Municipal Art Committee Assembles Work From Every Part of the Union." New York Times (June 20, 1937), p. 143.
Rosamund Frost. "Conflict at the Academy: Progressive Prize Winners Alternate with Painting Styles of the Past." Art News 44 (December 1–14, 1945), p. 17.
Arthur Millier. "Art Masterpieces Lent for Exhibit." Los Angeles Times (June 17, 1951), p. 11.
Howard Devree. "American Survey: Metropolitan Traces 200 Years of Art—Three Landscapists—An Exotic." New York Times (December 20, 1953), p. X11.
Virgil Barker. From Realism to Reality in Recent American Painting. Lincoln, Neb., 1959, p. 76, ill. p. 73.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 153–55, ill.
Alfred V. Frankenstein. "Albright, Ivan Le Lorraine." Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art. Chicago, [1973], ill. p. 10, fig. 2 (color), dates it 1930.
Carolyn Diskant inIn This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805–1976. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. [Philadelphia], 1976, pp. 224, 307, no. 269.
William S. Lieberman. 20th Century Art: Selections from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Vol. 1, Painting: 1905–1945. New York, 1986, pp. 46–47, 63, ill. (color, overall and detail), dates it 1929–30.
Paul Richard. "Mixing It Up At the Metropolitan: Standards & Surprises at the Museum's New Wallace Wing." Washington Post (February 1, 1987), p. F8, dates it 1929–30.
Robert Cozzolino inIvan Albright. Ed. Susan F. Rossen. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1997, p. 97, no. 14, ill.
Ivan Albright. Exh. brochure, Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1997, unpaginated.
Ivan Albright (American, North Harvey, Illinois 1897–1983 Woodstock, Vermont)
1940
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