the artist, New York (1949; sold through the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York to MMA)
New York. Pierre Matisse Gallery. "MacIver: Paintings," October 11–29, 1949, no. 10.
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. 8).
Washington, D. C. Phillips Collection. "Paintings by Loren MacIver," January 14–February 12, 1951, no catalogue.
Wellesley, Mass. Farnsworth Museum of Art, Wellesley College. "Loren MacIver: 35 Paintings, 1934–1950," March 7–28, 1951, no catalogue.
Dayton Art Institute. "The City by the River and the Sea: Five Centuries of Skylines," April 18–June 3, 1951, no. 49.
Hempstead, N. Y. Hofstra College. "Metropolitan Museum Masterpieces," June 26–September 1, 1952, brochure no. 50.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Loren MacIver, I. Rice Pereira," January 8–March 1, 1953, no. 43.
New York. Ford Foundation. November 20, 1958–January 10, 1959.
Venice. Biennale. "XXXI Esposizione Biennale internazionale d'arte: U. S. Pavilion," June 16–October 7, 1962, no. 14 [no. 15 in separate catalogue "Louise Nevelson, Loren MacIver, Jan Müller, Dmitri Hadzi" published for the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York].
Washington, D. C. Phillips Collection. "Paintings by Loren MacIver," November 20, 1965–January 3, 1966, no. 7.
South Bend, Ind. University of Notre Dame Art Gallery. "Paintings by Loren MacIver," January 16–February 27, 1966, no catalogue.
Newport Beach, Calif. Newport Harbor Art Museum. "Loren MacIver: Five Decades," April 14–June 12, 1983, unnumbered cat. (p. 37).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection One: Twentieth-Century Art," February 1–April 30, 1985, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selections from The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, Part 2," September 28, 2004–January 30, 2005, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selections from The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, Part 3," February 15–June 26, 2005, no catalogue.
G.T. M. "Loren MacIver." Art News 48 (October 1949), p. 44, ill.
Margaret Breuning. "Loren MacIver." Art Digest 24 (October 15, 1949), p. 12.
Robert Beverly Hale. 100 American Painters of the 20th Century: Works Selected from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1950, ill. p. 92.
Doris Brian. "The Metropolitan's American Policy—A Long View, No Blind Flying." Art Digest 24 (July 1, 1950), p. 22.
Esther Isabel Seaver. The City by the River and the Sea: Five Centuries of Skylines. Exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute. [Dayton], 1951, pp. 13, 29, no. 49.
Betty A. Dietz. "Exhibit Lures Vagabonds; Provocative Movie Opens." Dayton Daily News (April 22, 1951), p. 16.
Robert M. Coates. "The Art Galleries: The Ladies." New Yorker 28 (January 17, 1953), p. 54.
John I. H. Baur. Loren MacIver, I. Rice Pereira. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1953, pp. 26, 28, 35, no. 43.
Harrison E. Salisbury. "Molotov Visits Museum and U.N." New York Times (June 16, 1955), p. 3.
Robert Ayre. "Enchanting Work of Loren MacIver at 31st Biennale." Montreal Star (November 10, 1962), Entertainment section, p. 9.
Roger Birdsell. "Loren MacIver Paintings Reveal Fondness for Luminous Colors." South Bend Tribune (January 23, 1966), p. 31.
Marshall B. Davidson. The American Heritage History of the Artists' America. New York, 1973, pp. 334–35, ill.
John Gernand inLoren MacIver: Five Decades. Exh. cat., Newport Harbor Art Museum. [Newport Beach, Calif.], 1983, pp. 48, 52, ill. p. 37.
John Russell. "New York's Next Modern Museum Is on the Way." New York Times (February 17, 1985), p. H33.
Piri Halasz. "Manhattan Museums: The 1940s vs. the 1980s; Part Two: The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Arts Magazine 59 (March 1985), pp. 92–93.
Maureen Mullarkey. "Tuesday at the Met." Hudson Review 40 (Summer 1987), p. 200.
Jenni L. Schlossman. "Loren MacIver: Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary." Woman's Art Journal 21 (Spring–Summer 2000), pp. 12, 15, ill. inside front cover (color).
Loren MacIver (American, New York 1909–1998 New York)
1960
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