Departure of Summer

1914

Man Ray
American, 1890–1976

Status: On View, Gallery 391
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
Title: Departure of Summer
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1914
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.: "Man Ray 1914"
Dimensions: 82.5 × 90.2 cm (32 1/2 × 35 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior gift of the Mary and Leigh Block Collection
Reference Number: 1992.653
Copyright: © 2018 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Francis Naumann, “Man Ray and America: The New York and Ridgefield years: 1907-1921,” Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, New York, 1988 (UMI), pp. 139-140, no. 218/67.
Francis Naumann, “Man Ray, Hills,” in Masterworks of American Art from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, ed. P. Schweizer (New York, 1989), p. 117.
Charles Stuckey, “Selected recent acquisitions of twentieth-century art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Burlington Magazine (October 1993), pp. 725-728, fig. V.
Michael Fitzgerald, Picasso and American Art, Exh. cat. (Yale University Press, 2006), p. 36, p. 45.

The Arts Club of Chicago, An Exhibition of Modern American Paintings: Assembled and Loaned by The Daniel Gallery, New York, February 10-February 24, 1928, no. 8.
Pasadena Art Institute, Man Ray, September 19-October 29, 1944, no. 9.
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Man Ray, 1966, no. 13.
New York, Cultural Center, Man Ray: Inventor/Painter/Poet, December 19, 1974-March 12, 975, no. 11 (ill.).
Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Man Ray: L’Occhio e il suo doppio, July-September 1975, p. 57.
Montclair, New Jersey, Art Museum, Conversion to Modernism: The Early Works of Man Ray, February 16–August 3, 2003; traveled to Athens, Georgia Museum of Art, September 20–November 20, 2003; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, January 23–April 4, 2004.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Cézanne and American Modernism, 14 February - 23 May 2010.
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no.

Elsie Ray Sisgler, c. 1921, acquired directly from the artist. Daniel Gallery, New York, by January 1928. Paul Matisse Gallery, Beverly Hills, by 1966 [Los Angeles 1966]. Stephan Lion, New York, by 1975 [New York 1975]. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Middendorf, Washington, by 1988 [Naumann 1989]. Acquired by the Art Institute, July 1992.

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