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Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida

Ivan Albright · 1929–30

Ivan Albright: American, 1897 - 1983

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Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida

1929–30

Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

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Oil on canvas
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142.9 × 119.2 cm (56 1/4 × 47 in.)
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1977.34
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Collection: Art Institute of Chicago

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Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida — Ivan Albright. 1929–30.

Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 142.9 × 119.2 cm (56 1/4 × 47 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Holding a mirror, powdering her chest, and surrounded with accoutrements of fashion and beauty, the figure portrayed here does not necessarily inspire thoughts of youth and vibrancy. Rather, as one critic put it when this painting was first exhibited, he saw a “woman with flesh the color of a corpse drowned six weeks.” Ida Rogers herself was 19 years old at the time she posed for the artist. With his hyperbolic version of realism, Ivan Albright laboriously transformed his sitter into a vision of his own making. The painting is less a portrait than a meticulous musing on the passage of time and the relationship—both powerful and fragile—between mind and body.

Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Ivan Albright. Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida. Image: WikiArt. Copyright protected (WikiArt label). Proportionally resized and JPEG compressed; no crop.