Episode 27: Oscar Wilde, Ivan Albright, and Pictures of Dorian Gray

Listen to the episode HERE on Soundcloud or visit the podcast on iTunes, either through the Podcasts App (just search for “Stuff about Things Art History”) or by clicking HERE. Happy listening!

Uncredited in the episode: The gorgeous song featured over the Dorian Gray excerpt

Watch the 1945 Picture of Dorian Gray on Amazon Prime!

Read Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray online for FREE via Project Gutenberg!

Sources:

Gillespie, Michael Patrick. The Picture of Dorian Gray: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Reviews and Reactions. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1988.
Donnell, Courtney Graham. Ivan Albright. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.
Huber, Stanley Arliss. “The Paintings of Ivan Albright.” MA thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972.
Pollack, Peter. “The Lithographs of Ivan Albright.” American Art Journal 18, no. 1 (May 1976), 330-334.
Lee, Elizabeth. “Ivan Albright’s Ida and the ‘Object Congealed around a Soul’.” American Art 29, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 104-117.
Canavan, Tony. “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Books Ireland 381 (September/October 2018), 26-27.
Classic Film Freak Blog – Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Art Institute of Chicago – Ivan Albright
Art Institute of Chicago – Albright’s Picture of Dorian Gray
Art Institute of Chicago – Flesh: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago
Arn, Jackson. “Rediscovering the Painter Whose Grotesque Subject Matter Kept Him out of the Canon.” Artsy.com.
McGurk, Maura. “Six Degrees of Ivan Albright.” MauraMcGurk.com

Images:

Ivan Albright- Picture of Dorian Gray (1943-44) : museum — Ivan Albright, *Picture of Dorian Gray*, 1944-45, oil on canvas [image credit: AIC]

HENRIQUE MEDINA (1901-1988) | Portrait of Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray | Christie's | Portrait, Dorian gray, Hatfield — Henrique Medina, Picture of Dorian Gray, 1944-45, oil on canvas [image credit: Christies]

The supernatural Egyptian cat from the 1945 film [image credit: film still via Rmarts]

Ivan Albright c.1944 with the finished *Picture of Dorian Gray* – note signature “Basil Hallward” [image credit: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian]

Inscription on the above photograph [image credit: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian]

Ivan+Albright+painting++The+Portrait+of+Dorian+Gray+(1945).jpg (550×685) | Artist, Art studios, Visual artist — Ivan Albright painting *The Picture of Dorian Gray* ca. 1943-44 [image credit: Pinterest]

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) — Ivan Albright and his twin and assistant, Malvin, at work in Albright’s MGM studio [image credit: IMDB]

Ivan Albright and his twin brother, Malvin, alongside the mannequin of Dorian Gray [image credit: Life Magazine via Pinterest]

The mannequin of Dorian Gray that Albright used to paint his version of the Portrait of Dorian Gray for the 1945 movie [image credit: Alamy]

Visitors at the Art Institute of Chicago react to Albright’s *Picture of Dorian Gray* [image credit: Biblioklept]

Ivan Albright, *That Which I should Have Done but Did Not Do* (*The Door*), 1931-1941 [image credit: Art Institute of Chicago]

Ivan Albright, Self Portrait (no. 13), 1982 [image credit: Art Institute of Chicago]

Thanks for listening!

-L

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