Russell Cheney solo exhibits, catalogs, and reviews
1912
Ogunquit, Maine [untitled exhibit]
Source: illustrated in two group photos plus individual images in Cheney photo album v.1
1914
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, The Art Society of Hartford, 23 Prospect Street, Hartford, Conn., Sept. 22–Oct. 5, 1914 [catalog annotated with buyers]
Reviews: Cheney photo album unidentified clipping, Sept. 22, 1914: “Cheney’s paintings”; Hartford Courant, Sept. 23, 1914, p. 18: “Many Paintings Hung at Art Society. Russell Cheney’s Exhibition Shows Diversity of Performance.” States 49 [sic] works ’some of which have been seen before…,’ catalog shows only 46.
1916
Fall, New Haven [no catalog known]
Source: Hartford Daily Courant, Jan. 17, 1917: “Russell Cheney has been represented in the Connecticut Academy exhibition and showed a collection in New Haven last fall.”
1917
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, Wadsworth Atheneum Annex, Hartford, Conn., Jan. 15–20, 1917 [#1–72, photo album v.1 catalog annotated with sales and prices]
Review: Hartford Times, Jan. 13, 1917 (illustrated); Hartford Daily Courant, Jan. 14, 1917 (illustration only); review, Hartford Daily Courant, Jan. 17, 1917
1919
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, Wadsworth Atheneum Annex, Hartford, Conn., Nov. 22–Dec. 1, 1919 [#1–84 listed works]
Review: Hartford Times, Nov. 22, 1919, “Cheney Paintings Exhibited Here”; Hartford Courant: Nov. 30, 1919, “Cheney Exhibition At Athenaeum [sic] Galleries” (with illustration); Nov. 29, 1919, p. 13: George Keller [review] “Cheney Exhibit to Close Tomorrow/Manchester Artist’s Paintings at Atheneum Annex”; Dec. 7, 1919, p. X8: “Connecticut As A Field For the Artist’s Brush” with five paintings illustrated.
1920
Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Russell Cheney, South Manchester, Conn., Portland Society of Art, L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, Maine, Jan. 16–Feb. 1, 1920 [#401–440 loaned and priced works]
Illustrated review: Portland Sunday Telegram, Jan. 25, 1920
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, [Wadsworth] Atheneum Annex Galleries, Hartford, Conn., Dec. 5–Dec. 13, 1920 [#1–36; some loaned; Cheney photo album v.1 price catalog]
Illustrations: Hartford Sunday Courant, Dec. ?, 1920; Review Hartford Courant, Dec. 8, 1920; also W.D. Seymour photographs of all 36 paintings
1921
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, 114 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara, Calif., February 12 and 13, and February 18, 19 and 20, 10:00 to 6:00 [#1–40, catalog, photos and reviews in Cheney photo album v.1]
Review: Santa Barbara News, Jan. 31 and Feb. 9, 1921; Hartford Courant, Feb. 13, 1921; Santa Barbara Morning Press, review by Jessie Mary Bryant, Feb. 21, 1921
Paintings by Russell Cheney, with foreword by Christian Brinton, Babcock Galleries, New York City and Rhode Island School of Design, N.Y., Redfield-Kendrick-Odell Co., 1921 [color cover plus 7 b&w illustrations #1–46; 2500 ed. Babcock, Dec. 13–24, 1921]
Reviews and illustrations: NY World; NY Telegraph; Brooklyn Eagle American, Dec. 1921 review by Hamilton Easter Field, artist’s clippings; Art News, Dec. 17, 1921; NY Sun, Dec. 17, 1921; American Art News, “Versatility Shown by Russell Cheney,” Dec. 17, 1921, with illustration of ‘Woodstock’; Peyton Boswell, “Cheney Art Shows War between Old and New,” NY American, Dec. 18, 1921; [Royal Cortissoz] NY Times, Dec. 18, 1921; NY Herald, Dec. 18, 1921; Lula Merrick, NY Morning Telegraph, Dec. 18, 1921; [Miss Carey] “Paintings by Russell Cheney,” NY Times, Dec. 18, 1921
Editorial: “A Painter and His Critic” [i.e. Brinton], Hartford Courant, Dec. 13, 1921 [in Cheney photo album v.1]
1922
Paintings by Russell Cheney, with foreword by Christian Brinton, Babcock Galleries, New York City and Rhode Island School of Design, Redfield-Kendrick-Odell Co., N.Y., 1921 [with five additions; #1–51 RISD, Jan. 10–29, 1922, priced copy RISD]
Reviews: Providence Evening Bulletin, Jan. 11, 1922; Providence Journal, Jan. 11 & 15, 1922; undated Providence Sunday Journal clipping in photo album v.1 credits organizing this to the American Alliance of Art circulated by the American Federation of Arts; also see: Portland, Maine, paper “Praises Work of Russell Cheney” undated clipping Cheney photo album v.1
Paintings by Russell Cheney, with foreword by Christian Brinton, Babcock Galleries, New York City and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Redfield-Kendrick-Odell Co., N.Y., 1922 [b&w cover and 9 b&w illustrations; #1–46; 3000 ed. Babcock, Nov. 13–25, 1922]
Reviews: American Art News, Nov. 11, 1922; NY Times, NY Herald, The World (with illustration) Nov. 19, 1922; The Sun, Nov. 18, 1922; [Royal Cortissoz] New York Tribune, Nov. 19, 1922; Lula Merrick, “In the World of Art,” The [NY] Morning Telegraph, Nov. 19, 1922, and “Three Paintings by Russell Cheney,” Outlook, 132 (Dec. 27, 1922): 750–1.
Paintings by Russell Cheney at the Wadsworth Atheneum Annex, Hartford, Conn., Dec. 2–10, 1922, and Babcock Galleries, 19 East 49th Street, New York City [4 pp.; #1–46, but with additions 54 listed in a priced catalog in Cheney photo album v.1]
Reviews and illustrations: Hartford Courant, Nov. 30, 1922, illustration; Dec. 1, 1922, “Cheney Paintings Exhibited Sunday/Many Striking Canvases Shown At Wadsworth Atheneum”; Dec. 3, 1922, p. 16: “Youth’s Spirit in Cheney Paintings”; Dec. 7?, 1922, “Atheneum Accepts Cheney Painting/Conn. Winter Scene Will Be Hung Permanently in Gallery”
1923
“14 Still life compositions by Russell Cheney,” Street Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., Jan. 25, 1923
Review: Unidentified clipping “Interesting Collection of Still Life Paintings Shown at Yale Fine Arts School” and published photo of all 14 (titles identified) in Cheney photo album v.1
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, with Foreword by Christian Brinton, Broadmoor Art Academy, Greenhouse Gallery, Colorado Springs, Feb. 22–March 4, 1923 [#1–28]
Sources and illustrations: [“Winter in the Woods” i.e. “Ute Pass”] “Exhibition of Paintings by a Springs Artist, Russell Cheney Here on Friday,” Colorado Springs Gazette, Feb. 21, 1923; “Russell Cheney Exhibit Attracts Throngs,” Colorado Springs Gazette, Feb. 25, 1923; letters to RC in photo album v.1
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, School of Fine Arts, Santa Barbara, March 19–24, 1923 [#1–28]
Reviews: Untitled preview, The [Santa Barbara] Morning Press, March 18, 1923; “Russell Cheney’s Work in Gallery This Week—Impressionism,” Santa Barbara Daily News, March 23, 1923; Fred C. Law, “Paintings by Russell Cheney Miracles of Daring Coloring,” The [Santa Barbara] Morning Press, March 20, 1923
San Francisco Museum of Art [Palace of Fine Arts], May 12–June 22, 1923 [no catalog; typescript list #1–33 with prices in Cheney photo album v.1]
“Connecticut and California landscapes”: two-man exhibit with Ray Boynton. Exhibition of six contemporary Italian artists and the recent paintings of two American artists, Russell Cheney’s “Connecticut and California landscapes” and Ray Boynton, San Francisco Museum of Art in the Palace of Fine Arts, May 1923
Reviews: Unidentified newspaper clipping “Art in California,” May 12, 1923, in Boston Public Library; J. Vennerstrom Cannon, “Art and Artist” Berkeley Gazette, May 12, 1923; Anna Cora Winchell, “Canvases on Exhibit,” San Francisco Journal, May 13, 1923, with illustration “Green Bench”; untitled review and illustration, Oakland Tribune, May 13, 1923; Ruth Pielkovo, “Exhibit at Palace of Fine Arts,” The Bulletin with illustration “The Refugees”; “Painting by Russell Cheney” San Francisco Examiner, May 13, 1923; “At Art Palace,” Oakland Tribune May 27, 1923
1924
One-man exhibit, Oakland Municipal Gallery, June 1–15, 1924 [no catalog?]
Source: “Russell Cheney Exhibiting at Oakland Gallery,” Oakland Tribune, June 1, 1924, p. S-9
Special Exhibit: Paintings by Russell Cheney of the French Riviera, Moyer Gallery, 105 Platt Street, Hartford, Conn., Sept. 2–13, 1924 [advertisement: 20 pictures; no catalog]
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, Van Dyck Galleries, Washington, D.C., from October Sixth to October Thirty-First, Nineteen-Twenty-Four [#1–44; annotated catalog of prices and sold in Cheney photo album v.1]
Review: “Vandyke Galleries Open Their Winter Season,” Washington Post, Sept. 28, 1924; Ada Rainey [no title], Washington Star, Oct. 5, 1924 [photo album v.1]
1925
Untitled exhibit, Broadmoor Art Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo., April 14–26, 1925 [no catalog]
Newspaper notices: “Back From Europe,” Colorado Springs Gazette, April 14, 1925; “Has Show,” Colorado Springs Gazette, April 26, 1925
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, Babcock Galleries, 19 East 49th Street, New York, April 27–May 9, 1925 [4 pp; #1–24 plus 12? unlisted additions]
Illustrations: American Art News, April 25, 1925. Reviews: NY Evening Post, May 2, 1925; “A New Venice,” NY Times, May 3, 1925; William B. M’Cormick untitled review, NY American, May 8, 1925, and Brooklyn Daily News, May 3, 1925
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, Wadsworth Athenaeum Annex, Hartford, Conn., May 13–25, 1925 [#1–36, and #1–50 amended priced catalog with sales listed in photo album v.1]
Illustrations: Hartford Courant, May 3, 1925
Paintings Recently Completed in France and New England by Russell Cheney, at the Babcock Galleries, Nov. 23–Dec. 11, 1925 [with Jose Arps and Stanley Woods; invitation; #1–10 catalog in photo album v.1]
Reviews and illustrations: NY Times, Nov. 19 and 29, 1925; NY Evening Post, Nov. 28, 1925; untitled, NY American, Oct. 29, 1925; NY Herald Tribune, Nov. 29, 1925; “Russel [sic] Cheney’s Pictures at Babcock Gallery,” Brooklyn Eagle, Nov. 29, 1925; Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 4, 1925. Illustrations: Art News Nov. 21, 1925; “Russell Cheney Shows at the Babcock Gallery,” Newark Evening News, Nov. 30, 1925
1926
Paintings by Russell Cheney, Baltimore Museum of Art, Jan. 5–24, 1926 [#1–26 works in two galleries]
Review: Baltimore American, Jan. 6, 1926
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, Santa Barbara Art Club, 15 East de la Guerra Street, Santa Barbara, Calif., March 1–13, 1926, Daily 9 to 12; 1 to 5 pm [#1–14]
Review: Santa Barbara The Morning Press, Feb. 11, 1926; Laura Bride Powers, “Art In Santa Barbara,” The Morning Press, Feb. 28, 1926, and March 2, 1926
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, Grace Nicholson Gallery, Pasadena, Calif., March 22?–April 10, 1926 [#1–24, catalog in photo album v.1]
Reviews: Pasadena Star-Times clipping [no date]; Los Angeles Times, April 4, 1926
Paintings of Italy & the Riviera, Galerie Beaux Arts, Oakland, Calif., May 10–24, 1926 [mss list pasted down on invitation, photo album v.1]
Source: “Artists & Their Work,” Oakland Tribune, April 25, 1926, S-7
Review: “Russell Cheney Exhibition Being Given at Galerie Beaux Arts,” San Francisco Bulletin, May 15, 1926, with illustration “Chartres”; “Russell Cheney’s Second Local Exhibit,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 16, 1926
1927
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, in the Little Gallery, Mattatuck Historical Society, Feb. 7–28, 1927 [#1–17, only known catalog—notes lenders—in photo album v.1]
Exhibition Paintings of Italy and Southern California by Russell Cheney, Babcock Galleries, 19 East 449th Street, New York City, March 14–26, 1927 [catalog: color cover “Desert Palms” plus 3 b&w illustrations; #1–24 works]
Reviews: NY Times, March 20, 1927; NY American, March 20, 1927; Margaret Breuning, “Russell Cheney,” NY Evening Post; Christian Science Monitor, March 17, 1927; Henry McBride, NY Sun, March 19, 1927; NY Herald Tribune, March 30, 1927; “Russell Cheney,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 20, 1927
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., May 16–28, 1927 [#1–44 annotated catalog in photo album]
Reviews and illustrations: Hartford Times, May 17, 1927; Hartford Courant, May 17; “Italian Winter Scenes Shown in Paintings by Russell Cheney,” Hartford Courant, May 15, 1927, and review May 23, 1927; Review: H. Viggo Andersen, “Cheney Art Show Opens At Atheneum,” Hartford Courant, May 14, 1925, p. 30 clipping in photo album v.1.
Exhibition at Paul Shortridge Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, May 1927
Source: Hartford Times review, May 17, 1927
Exhibition at Moyer Gallery, Hartford, Conn. [6 titles known, no catalog]
Review: T.H. Parker, “Russell Cheney,” Hartford Daily Times, Nov. 19, 1927; H. Viggo Andersen, “New Touch In Cheney Paintings,” Hartford Daily Courant, Nov. 16, 1927
1928
Russell Cheney Exhibition of Paintings, Montross Gallery, 26 East 56th Street, New York, Nov. 26–Dec. 8, 1928 [#1–35 works, 2 b&w illustrations]
Reviews: New York American, Dec. 1, 1928; NY Evening Post, Margaret Breuning review, Dec. 1, 1928; NY Sun, Henry McBride review, Dec. 1, 1928; New York World, Dec. 2, 1928; NY Times, Dec. 2, 1928; Edward Alden Jewell review, p. 151, American Art Review, Dec. 1, 1920; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Dec. 9, 1928; “Russell Cheney,” NY Herald
1928–29
Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney at Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., Dec. 1928 ?–Jan. 17, 1929 [no catalog]
Reference: Yale Class book 1929; undated illustrated clipping, Hartford Courant; illustration: “Lilies and Salute,” A Drawing in Venice by Russell Cheney ’04 to be seen in the Yale Gallery of Fine Arts, page from The Yale Alumni Weekly
Review: “Oils by Russell Cheney On View at Art School,” Yale News (v. LII, No. 72), Dec. 19, 1928
1930
Museum of New Mexico, Feb. 1930 [first show at Santa Fe; no catalog]
Source: El Palacio XXVIII (Jan. 1930), pp. 14–15
Review: “Russell Cheney, New England Painter Exhibits Work at Art Museum,” clipping from Santa Fe New Mexican [no date; in photo album v.1]
Russell Cheney Exhibition of Paintings, Montross Gallery, 785 Fifth Avenue, New York, May 5–17, 1930 [#1–17 catalog with 2 b&w illustrations]
Reviews: Art News, May 10, 1930, p. 15; NY Times, May 11, 1930; NY World, May 11, 1930; NY Herald Tribune, May 10 & 11, 1930; Creative Arts v. 6 (June 1930)
Exhibit, Westfield, Mass., Nov.–Dec. 1930 [then to Cleveland; see catalog 1931]
Source: RC letter to Mitch Davenport, Nov. 10, 1930 [no confirmation]
1930–31
Avery, Berkman, Cheney, O’Callahan Exhibition, Wadsworth Atheneum and Morgan Memorial, Dec. 21–Jan. 11, 1931, Hartford, Conn. [Milton Avery, Aaron Berkman, Russell Cheney (#27–35), and Clinton O’Callahan]
Source: Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to A New Art 1928–1943, p. 159; catalog Wadsworth Atheneum Archives
1931
An Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, Potter-Bentley Studio, Cleveland, Ohio, January 12–31, 1931 [catalog with one b&w illustration, foreword by Christian Brinton, #1–21 listed works]
1932
An Exhibition of Paintings by Russell Cheney, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 3–Feb. 1, 1932 [#1–24, catalog in photo album v.1]
Reviews: San Antonio [Texas] Express, “Connecticut Artists to be Shown Here,” Dec. 31, 1931; San Antonio Express, “Cheney To Show Paintings Here,” Jan. 3, 1932, with two illustrations, “Penitente” and “Fred Reading”; “Cheney Art Seen at Witte,” San Antonio Sunday Light, Jan. 3, 1932; “Cheney Canvases Shown at Museum,” San Antonio Sunday Light, Jan. 10, 1932 and illustration “New Castle”
Russell Cheney Exhibition of Paintings, Montross Gallery, 785 Fifth Avenue, New York, Feb. 29–March 12, 1932 [b&w cover illustration; #1–29 plus 2 mss additions = 31 priced catalog]
Reviews and illustrations: undated clipping unknown Feb.–March 1932 NY newspaper; Arts Weekly, March 11, 1932; NY Herald Tribune, Feb. 27 and March 6, 1932; NY Times, Feb. 29 and March 6, 1932; Art News, March 5, 1932
Source: Portsmouth Herald, March 24, 1932, “Artist Has Exhibit”
One-man show, Moyer’s Gallery, Hartford, March–April 1932 [same as Montross?]
Review: undated March 1932 clipping [probably Hartford Courant] “Exhibition of Pictures by Cheney”; Sources: Portsmouth Herald, p. 9, “Kittery Artist has Exhibit,” March 24, 1932; Kittery Press, March 24, 1932
1933
Exhibitions/ Paintings by Russell Cheney and Gleb Ilyin/ Prints by Bertha Lumm/ Photographic Studies of California Trees/ in the Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery/ March 2 through March 20, Free Public Library, Santa Barbara, 1933
Source: floor plan layout in Russell Cheney’s copy of the catalog
Exhibition, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, N.Mex., Jan. 1933
Source: Santa Fe New Mexican, Dec. 31, 1932, “Twelve Russell Cheney Paintings to be Shown at New Museum Here”
Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, Calif., March–April 1933 [no known catalog]
Exhibition, Museum of Fine Art, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, Nov. 26?–Dec. 11, 1933 [typescript label, priced list of 31 works]
Review: San Mateo [Calif.] Times, “Oil Paintings by Russell Cheney at Legion Palace,” Nov. 22, 1933; Oakland Tribune, Oakland, Calif., Nov. 26, 1933
1934
Jan. ?–Jan. 15, 1934, Broadmoor Art Academy [30 paintings sent from San Francisco]
Review: Laura Gilpin, Colorado Springs Gazette, Jan. 1934 clipping
Russell Cheney, Montross Gallery, 785 Fifth Avenue, New York, Feb. 12–24, 1934 [catalog, 26 works], shown with pottery by Henry Varnum Poor, watercolors by Stanley Wood
Review and illustrations: NY Sun, Feb. 15, 1934; Review: NY Evening Post, Feb. 17, 1934; NY Evening Post, Feb. 17, 1934; NY Herald Tribune, Feb. 18, 1934; Carlyle Burrows review, Portsmouth Herald, Feb. 24, 1934
Paintings by Russell Cheney, Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, Mass., Feb. 27–Mar. 10 [or 24?], 1934 [no catalog; 5-plus works known]
Review: Boston Evening Transcript, March 3, 1934; review and illustrations, Boston Sunday Post, March 4, 1934; Christian Science Monitor, March 5, 1934
Addison Gallery of American Art, Contemporary New England Artists [series] Paintings by Russell Cheney, Sept. 22–Oct. 28, 1934 [#1–27 works]
Sources: Portsmouth Herald, Sept. 18, 20 and Oct. 2, 1934; review by Dorothy Adlow, Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 19, 1934
1935
Paintings by Russell Cheney & Charles L.P. Townsend, Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, Mass., Jan. 5–19, 1935 [no catalog, 21 works known from review]
Review and illustrations: Boston Transcript, Jan. 5, 1934; photo only, Boston Herald, Jan. 6, 1935; review, Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 9, 1935
Moyer Gallery, Hartford, Conn., April 1935 [ref. Hyde, Rat & the Devil, p. 387]
Exhibit, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, April 1935 [no catalog]
Source: El Palacio XXXVIII (May 1–15): 110 ”Cheney, Meyers Among Exhibitors At Art Museum”; Review, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Feb. 26, 1936
Exhibit, Peirce House Barn Gallery, Portsmouth, N.H., Sept. 1935 [no catalog, 8 paintings known]
Review: Portsmouth Herald, Sept. 17, 1935
1936
Exhibit, Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, Mass., Jan. 18–Feb. 8, 1936
Source: Kittery Press, Jan. 24, 1936, and Feb. 28, 1936
Review and illustrations: Boston Transcript, Jan. 25, 1936; Boston Herald, Jan. 26, 1936, “Impressions by Three Artists In Paint and Water Color,” Irma Whitney
Russell Cheney, March 2–15, 1936, Ferargil Galleries, 63 E. 57th Street, New York [#1–30 listed works, introduction by F.N.P.]
Reviews: NY Times, March 8, 1936; NY Sun, March 7, 1936, and NY Herald Tribune, March 8, 1936, all quoted in Portsmouth Herald, March 11, 1936; Sunday Brooklyn Eagle, March 15, 1936
Exhibition, Warner House, Portsmouth, N.H., July 4–15, 1936 [no catalog]
Exhibit, Peirce House Barn Gallery, Portsmouth, N.H., July 15–?, 1936 [no catalog]
Source: Portsmouth Herald, June 20 and July 15, 1936
1937
Paintings by Russell Cheney, Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, Mass., Feb. 14–27, 1937
Reviews and illustrations: Boston Transcript, Feb. 13, 1937, unidentified NHHS clipping with illustration: Irma Whitney, “Present New England in Portrait and Landscape” [6 works cited]; Boston Transcript, Feb. 13, 1937, by Wm G. Dooley; Christian Science Monitor, Feb. ?, 1937, “What’s Going on in the Arts,” Dorothy Adlow review clipping; Feb. 14, 1937, Boston Herald, Sun. part 6, p. 7 with illustration of “Harold Lathrop”
Russell Cheney Paintings, Ferargil Galleries, New York, March 1–14, 1937 [catalog #1–27 listed works]
Review: Art News, v. 35 (March 6, 1937) p. 14, “Davis and Cheney”; NY Herald Tribune, March 7, 1937; NY Times, March 7, 1937
Paintings by Russell Cheney, Portland Society of Art, Portland, Maine, May 1937 [typescript list of 42 priced works]
Review and two illustrations: Portland Sunday Telegram, May 9, 1937; Portland Evening News, May 14, 1937
Girl Scout Benefit, Kittery Point, Maine, July 20, 1937, with John P. Benson and Caroline Pickard Cubert of Taos and Kittery Point
Source: Portsmouth Herald, July 19, 1937, p. 2 “Art Exhibit At Kittery Point”
Exhibit, Portsmouth Home Industries Shop, 243 State Street, July 21–28, 1937
Source: Portsmouth Herald, July 21, 1937, p. 4: Exhibit of Paintings
1938
Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, Mass., Jan. 24–Feb. 5, 1938 [no catalog]
Reviews: Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 26 and Feb. 2, 1938; Boston Evening Transcript, Jan. 29, 1938; Portsmouth Herald, Jan. 22, 1938, and Feb. 2, 1938
1939
Russell Cheney, Ferargil Galleries, 63 East 57th Street, New York, April 3–16, 1939 [catalog; invitation to opening]
American Art News, April 8, 1939; NY World/Telegram, April 8, 1939; NY Sun, April 8, 1939; NY Herald/Tribune, April 9, 1939
Russell Cheney, Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, Mass., May 8–20, 1939 [#1–16 listed works, with two excerpts of NY reviews of April 1939], with Alica Atkinson paintings, Dorothy Morse Howe watercolors
Reviews: Christian Science Monitor, May 9; Boston Transcript, May 13, 1939
1941
Untitled exhibit at Lanier’s Tea Room, Eliot, Maine, Aug. 15–29, 1941 [17 known paintings]
Source: Portsmouth Herald, Aug. 16, 1941, “Local Paintings”
Russell Cheney, Ferargil Galleries, New York, Oct. 27–Nov. 8, 1941 [priced listing]
Reviews: NY Sun, Oct. 27, 1941; NY Herald and NY Times, Nov. 11, 1941
1942
Exhibit, Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, Mass., Jan. 5–19?, 1942 [no catalog]
Advertising illustration: Boston Sunday Post, Jan. 11, 1942
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, Oct. 10–?, 1942 [no catalog]
Source: El Palacio, vol. XLIX (Nov. 1942), p. 252–53
Review: unidentified Santa Fe clipping: “Russell Cheney of New England and Santa Fe Exhibits”
1945
Maine & New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, March 1–30?, 1945
Source: El Palacio LII (April 1945), p. 74, “Exhibitions at the art gallery”
Review: Santa Fe New Mexican (Feb. 27, 1945), Dorothy Jane Larson, “Russell Cheney Painting Shows Simple, Direct Approach to Art”
Planned exhibit, Wichita, Kansas, Nov. 1945 [no catalog]
Source: Russell Cheney–Willard Hougland letters
Immediate Retrospectives
Russell Cheney retrospectives, all Aug. 1945–Sept. 1946 [dates uncertain]
- Portland Museum of Art, 43 paintings
- Colby College Art Gallery, 23 paintings
- Maine Sanatorium, 3 paintings
Source: appraisal lists, letters, curatorial files, Portland Museum of Art
1947
Russell Cheney 1881–1945 Retrospective Memorial Exhibition, Ferargil Galleries, New York, March 17–29, 1947 [catalog with introduction by F.N.P., #1–30]
Reviews: NY Sun, March 21, 1947; Herald Tribune, March 22, 1947; NY Times, March 23, 1947
Russell Cheney 1881–1945 Retrospective Memorial Exhibition, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., April 3–17?, 1947 [no catalog known]
Reviews: Christian Science Monitor, April 3; Hartford Courant, April 12, 1947
Works by Hartley, Cheney & Cutler, Institute of Modern Art, Boston, Mass., Sept.–Oct. 1947 [19 works, 1 room for Cheney known from mss plan]
Reviews: Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 22 and 28, 1947
Modern Retrospectives
1971
Russell Cheney Retrospective Exhibition, Whiton Library, Manchester, Conn., Sept. 16–Oct. 1?, 1971 [#1–36 checklist]
1996
Russell Cheney, 1881–1945, Artist of the Piscataqua, The Randall Room, Portsmouth Athenaeum, Portsmouth, N.H., June 20–Aug. 17, 1996 [color cover plus 23 pages, introduction by Patricia Heard, guest curator, #1–30]
2001
Russell Cheney, Manchester’s Impressionist, The Cheney Homestead, Manchester, Conn., June 8–10, 2001 [12 pp., #1–21]
2008
Russell Cheney, A New England Master: Kittery, Maine, & the Art of Domesticity, Portsmouth Athenaeum, Portsmouth, N.H., June 1–Sept. 6, 2008
Russell Cheney, A New England Master: From Impressionist to Yankee Modernist, Portsmouth Historical Society, Portsmouth, N.H., June 1–Oct. 31, 2008