Exhibition

In 1943, New York art collectors Chester Dale (1883–1962) and Maud Murray Dale (1875–1953) sent a number of works from their substantial art collection to three museums. While the old masters went to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago received twentieth-century works, including five Modigliani paintings, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art received nineteenth and twentieth-century works, including eleven Modigliani paintings. In Chicago, the fifty-one examples of the School of Paris went on view in April and were installed in three galleries adjacent to the Post-Impressionist works from the permanent collection. The loan continued until the spring of 1952 and the works were shipped to the National Gallery of Art shortly thereafter.