EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 154. WATTEAU LE MEZZETIN Wi/denstein and Company CATALOGUE OF A CENTURY OF PROGRESS EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 1934 First Edztion THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO JUNE I TO NOVEMBER I, 1934 COPYRIGHT, 1934 THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO PRINTED AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS, R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY, CHICAGO Trustees, Officers, and Committees THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 1934· HONORARY TRUSTEES JOHN J. GLESSNER WILLIAM O. GOODMAN FRANK G. LOGAN TRUSTEES DAVID ADLER MAX EpSTEIN POTTER PALMER ROBERT ALLERTON CHARLES F. GLORE ABRAM POOLE FREDERIC C. BARTLETT ALFRED E. HAMILL JOSEPH T. RYERSON WALTER S. BREWSTER JOHN A. HOLABIRD WALTER B. SMITH THOMAS E. DONNELLEY CHAUNCEY MCCORMICK RUSSELL TYSON PERCY B. ECKHART CYRUS MCCORMICK CHARLES H. WORCESTER EX OFFICIO EDWARD J. KELLY ROBERT B. UPHAM Mayor of the City of Chicago Comptroller of the City of Chicago P,-csident, South Park Commissioners PHILIP S. GRAVER Auditor, South Park Commissioners OFFICERS FRANK G. LOGAN PERCY B. ECKHART ROBERT B. HARSHE Honorary President Vice-President Director WILLIAM O. GOODMAN CHARLES H. WORCESTER CHARLES FABENS KELLEY Honorary Vice-President Vice-President Assistant Director JOHN J. GLESSNER CHAUNCEY MCCORMICK CHARLES H. BURKHOLDER Honorary Vice-President Vice-President Secretary and Business POTTER PALMER WALTER B. SMITH Manager President Treasurer GUY U. YOUNG ROBERT ALLERTON Manager, Membership Vice-President Department EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE POTTER PALMER CHAUNCEY MCCORMICK ROBERT ALLERTON WALTER B. SMITH PERCY B. ECKHART RUSSELL TYSON CHARLES H. WORCESTER WALTER S. BREWSTER v COMMITTEE ON PAINTING AND SCULPTURE CHARLES H. WORCESTER, Chairman CHAUNCEY MCCORMICK FREDERIC C. BARTLETI PERCY B. EcKHAR'l: MAX EpSTEIN JOHN A. HOLABIRD WALTER S . BREWSTER Staff OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ROBERT B. HARSHE, Director C. LINDSAY RICKETIS, Honorary Curator of Manuscripts CHARLES FABENS KELLEY, Assistant Director LILIAN COMBS, CHARLES H. BURKHOLDER, Acting Curator of Prints and Drawings Secretary and Business Manager WALTER 1- SHERWOOD, Guy U. YOUNG, Manager, Membership Dept. Manager of Printing and Publications ROBERT B. fiARSHE, G. E. KALTENBACH, Museum Registrar Curator of Painting and Sculpture ETHELDRED ABBOT, DANIEL CATION RICH, Librarian, the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Associate Curator of Painting CHARLES FABENS KELLEY, Dean of the School CHARLES FABENS KELLEY, Curator of Oriental AI"t NORMAN L. RICE, Associate Dean HELEN C. GUNSAULUS, MARGUERITA M. STEFFENSON, Assistant Dean Assistant Curator of Oriental Art DUDLEY CRAFTS WATSON, Membership Lecturer FREDERICK W. GOOKIN, Curator of Buckingham Prints HELEN P ARKER, Head of Department of Museum Instruction BESSIE BENNETI, Curator of Decorative Arts JAMES F. MCCABE, Superintendent of Buildings HELEN MACKENZIE, Curator of the Children's Museum HENRI GUTHERZ, In Charge of Sales vi Lenders to the Exhibition Dr. Michael A. Abrams, Baltimore Mr. and Mrs. Hunt Henderson, New Orleans Mr. Robert Allerton, Chicago Mrs. Charles R. Henschel, New York An American Group Galleries, New York Mr. N. B. Hersloff, West Orange, New Jersey The Angell-Norris Collection, St. Charles, Illi- Mrs. Patrick C. Hill, Fort Worth, Texas nOIs Mr. Louis W. Hill, St. Paul Mr. Jules S. Bache, New York Mr. Ralph J. Hines, Chicago Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch, Los Angeles Dr. F. H. Hirschland, New York The A. M. Barnhart Estate, Chicago Mr. Earl Horter, Philadelphia Mrs. Emma S. Bellows, New York Mr. M. Martin Janis, Buffalo Mr. Harry C. Bentley, Boston Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago Mr. Cornelius N. Bliss, New York Mrs. Edouard Jonas, New York Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Georgetown, Mr. Albert Keller, New York D.C. Mr. Lincoln Kirstein, New York Mr. John F. Braun, Philadelphia M. Knoedler and Company, New York Mr. Gardner Cassatt, Radnor, Pennsylvania C. W. Kraushaar, New York Mr. Stephen C. Clark, New York Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lamb, -Cleveland Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Coe, Cleveland Julien Levy Gallery, New York Cronyn and Lowndes Gallery, New York Mr. Adolph Lewisohn, New York Mr. John Cowles, Des Moines, Iowa Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan, Chicago Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Danielson, Boston Macbeth Gallery, New York The Estate of the Late Miss Adah M. Dods- Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey McCormick, Chicago worth, Englewood, New Jersey Mrs. Robert Rutherford McCormick, Chicago The Downtown Gallery, New York Mr. Henry P. McIlhenny, Germantown, Penn- A. S. Drey, New York sylvania Durand-Ruel, Inc., New York Mrs. Constance Haass McMath, Detroit Mr. Richard Ederheimer, New York The Honorable Andrew W. Mellon, Washing- Mr. Jacob Epstein, Baltimore ton, D. C. Mr. Max Epstein, Chicago The Milch Galleries, New York Ferargil, Inc., New York The Montross Gallery, New York Mr. Edsel Ford, Detroit Mr. and Mrs. Paul Scott Mowrer, Chicago French and Company, Inc., New York The New York Public Library, New York Gallery 144 West 13th Street, New York Mr. William Church Osborn, New York Mr. and Mrs. Cecil M. Gooch, Memphis, Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago Tennessee Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Payson, New York The Grand Central Art Galleries, New York Mr. Duncan Phillips, Washington, D. C. Mr. Maitland F. Griggs, New York Mr. Herbert L. Pratt, New York Mr. Carl W. Hamilton, New York Mr. Richman Proskauer, Larchmont, New York Miss Mary Hanna, Cincinnati Public Works of Art Project, Region No. 10 Mrs. J. Horace Harding, New York Mr. Ralph Pulitzer, New York Mr. and Mrs. William Averell Harriman, New Mr. Frank K. M. Rehn, New York York Marie Harriman Gallery, New York The Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York Mr. Carter H. Harrison, Chicago Mrs. Grace Rainey Rogers, New York Dr. Rudolph Heinemann-Fleischmann, Munich, Mr. Paul Rosenberg, Paris, France Germany Mr. Horatio S. Rubens, New York Vll Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, New York City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis Mr. Samuel Sachs, New York The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Dr. B. D. Saklatwalla, Crafton, Pennsylvania The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Colum- Mr. John Mortimer Schiff, New York bus, Ohio Mr. Henry Schniewind, New York The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Flora Schofield, Chicago The Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Mr. Martin C. Schwab, Chicago Pittsburgh Scott and Fowles, New York The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company, New The Farnsworth Museum, Wellesley College, York Wellesley, Massachusetts Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York The Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Mr. and Mrs. Lesley Green Sheafer, New York Cambridge, Massachusetts Mr. and Mrs. John S. Sheppard, New York The Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, Michigan Mr. Hi Simons, Chicago The Logan Museum, Beloit College, Beloit, Wis- Mrs. John W. Simpson, New York consin Mr. John T. Spaulding, Boston The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mr. Eugene Speicher, New York The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Mr. LeRoy J. Steffen, Chicago The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Mr. Chester D. Tripp, Chicago Design, Providence, Rhode Island The Trustee of the John G. Johnson Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Philadelphia The Museum of the City of New York, New The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska York The Univeisity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Mr. and Mrs. J. Watson Webb, New York The National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian In­ Mr. Carl Weeks, Des Moines, Iowa stitution, Washington, D. C. Mr. S. W. Weis, Chicago The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Can­ Julius H. Weitzner, Inc., New York ada Miss Edith Wetmore, Newport, Rhode Island The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Weyhe Gallery, New York Philadelphia Miss Gertrude B. Whittemore, Naugatuck, Con­ The Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia necticut The Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D. C. The J. H. Whittemore Company, Naugatuck, Connecticut The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Wildenstein and Company, Inc., New York Sarasota, Florida Mr. Mark S. Willing, Chicago The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle The Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Spring­ Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Winterbotham, Burling- field, Massachusetts ton, Vermont The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connect­ Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Worcester, Chicago icut Howard Young Galleries, New York The Whitney Museum of American Art, New The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, York Massachusetts The Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massa­ The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn chusetts The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Yale University, Gallery of Fine Arts, New San Francisco Haven, Connecticut viii Foreword OR 1934 The Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture of "A Century of Prog­ ress" has been arranged with two objectives: First, to show the characteristics Fand development of American painting from the eighteenth century to today; Second, to exhibit a certain number of outstanding works which have either originally belonged to the great European collections and museums or have at one time hung on their walls. Last year the exhibition stressed a hundred years' progress in American picture collecting and convincingly demonstrated to the greatest number of visitors attending a museum during a world's exposition, that our public galleries and private owners possessed treasures of amazing worth belonging to every period and nation in the history of Western art. This year native achievement is the theme. For the past twenty-five years, an increasing interest has been manifest