And Man Created God in His Own Image

American Art

1930/31

Ivan Albright
American, 1897–1983

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Artist: Ivan Albright
Title: And Man Created God in His Own Image
Origin: United States
Date: 1930–1931
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 121.9 × 66 cm (48 × 26 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Ivan Albright
Reference Number: 1977.36
Copyright: © The Art Institute of Chicago.

Judith A. Barter, ed. “America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s” exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2016), fig. 10, p. 129.

Art Institute of Chicago, 36th Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Jan 28–Mar 20, 1932, cat. 6 (as Room 23).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Fellowship Exhibition, Nov 1932, (as Room 23).
New York, Whitney Museum, The First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Nov 22, 1932–Jan 5, 1933, cat. 44 (as Room 23).
White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Old White Art Gallery at the Greenbrier Hotel, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Jul–Aug, 1935, cat. no. 10 (as And God Created Man in His Own Image).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, The 1936 International Exhibition of Paintings, Oct 15–Dec 6, 1936, cat. 27 (as And God Created Man in His Own Image).
Museum of Modern Art, 20th Century Portraits, 1942, cat. 2; traveled to Chicago, Arts Club, and St. Louis, City Art Museum, 1943.
New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, First Joint Exhibition: The Albright Twins, Oct 22–Nov 10, 1945, cat. 3.
Chicago, Associated American Artists Galleries, The Albright Twins First Joint Chicago Exhibition, Mar 29–Apr 17, 1946, cat. 4.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The 144th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Jan 23–Feb 27, 1949, cat. 303.
Chicago, Riccardo’s Restaurant and Gallery, solo exhibition, Feb 1953.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 151st Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Jan 22–Feb 26, 1956, cat. 13 (as There is Man in God).
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition, Ocotber 30–Dec 27, 1964, cat. 14; traveled to the Whitney Museum, Feb 3–Mar 21, 1965 (as And God Created Man in His Own Image).
New York, Whitney Museum, The 1930s, Oct 15–Dec 1, 1968 (as And God Created Man in His Own Image).
Art Institute of Chicago, Works by Ivan Le Lorraine Albright from the Collection, Oct 21–Dec 10, 1978, cat. 9.
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, American Realism Between the Wars: 1919–1941, Apr 10–Jun 5, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ivan Albright: Magic Realist, Feb 20–May 11, 1997; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jun 10–Sep 7, 1997.
Kunsthalle de Hypo–Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, Realism in the Twentieth Century, Jun 1–Sep 2, 2001.
Art Institute of Chicago, Flesh: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago, May 4–Aug 5, 2018, no cat.