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Man with a Pen
Exhibition history
Chicago Merchandise Mart, 1950 (from object file). Chicago, Carson Pirie Scott & Co.: window display, Apr. 11–30, 1952. Chicago, Charles A. Stevens Store, Mar. 27–May 27, 1956. Art Institute of Chicago, Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s, Sept. 21, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, no cat.
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, Calendar 1983, May/June 1983, p. 3 (ill.). Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, "For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) no. 26. Elizabeth McGoey and Elizabeth Siegel, "Photography + Folk Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," The Decorative Arts Trust Magazine (Summer 2019): 16, fig. 4 (ill.). Karla Klein Albertson, "Photography + Folk Art," Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Nov. 19, 2019, https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/photography-folk-art, ill.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jonas Welch Holman / American, 1805–1873
- Date
- 1827–30
- Medium
- Oil on yellow poplar panel
- Dimensions
- 70.8 × 54.6 cm (27 7/8 × 21 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Folk Art
- Place
- Philadelphia
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Allerton
- Accession no.
- 1946.392
Provenance
Philadelphia Collection; sold to Downtown Gallery / American Folk Art Gallery, New York, NY, by 1938; sold to Robert Allerton, Chicago, 1938; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.
More by Jonas Welch Holman in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001555
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