DETAILS
- Artist
- Ivan Albright
- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- 185.4 × 91.4 cm (73 × 36 in.)
- Collection
- Arts of the Americas
- Culture
- United States
- Credit line
- Gift of Ivan Albright
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THE ARTIST
Ivan Albright
Ivan Albright, the "master of the macabre," spent years meticulously detailing the fragility of flesh and the human condition in works like "That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)."
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American Gothic
Okada Saburosuke · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Bull's Head
Mikhail Larionov · 1913 · Tretyakov Gallery
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Lemons on a Pewter Plate
Henri Matisse · 1926 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Still Life with Fragments
Paul Klee · 1925 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Blue Forest
Max Ernst · 1925 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Circus Rider
Marc Chagall · 1927 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Pablo Picasso · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Grant Wood · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Fiddler
Norman Rockwell · 1921 · Brandywine Museum of Art