My House

Artist Loren MacIver (American 1909–1998)

Date1936

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 24 15/16 x 34 1/16 in. (63.3 x 86.5 cm)
Frame: 27 1/4 x 36 3/8 x 1 1/4 in. (69.2 x 92.4 x 3.2 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.82

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom right: MacIver

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 20th Century American Galleries (113), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present; An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005; Loren MacIver: Paintings and Collages, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, October 7–November 6, 1993; Loren MacIver, Museum of Modern Art circulating exhibition; Arts Club of Chicago, January 31–February 28, 1941; Duke University, March 7–22, 1941; San Francisco Museum of Art, October 5–26, 1941; Exhibition of American Art, 1609–1938, organized by Museum of Modern Art for the Jeu de Paume, Paris, May 24–July 13, 1938 [possibly “My House,” dated 1934–35] ProvenanceThe artist; Acquired in 1993 from Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New YorkPublished ReferencesCotter, Holland, “Loren MacIver,” New York Times, October 29, 1993. Edelman, Robert G., “MacIver’s Luminous Visions,” Art in America 82 (February 1994): 80 (ill., color), 82. Loren MacIver: Exhibition (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1941) (brochure), n.p. (no. 4). Marshall, Robert D., “Loren MacIver’s Moments,” in Loren MacIver (New York: Terry Dintenfass, Inc., 1993), n.p. (ill., color). Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 168, 194 (ill, color).