Border Fragment by Chancay
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Border Fragment

Chancay · 1000-1476

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham, SC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Junior Museum, Textiles, April 1969
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, September 11- December 16, 1985
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, January 17- June 17, 1991
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Mexican, Central, and South American Textiles: A Living Legacy, Oct. 28, 1992-Jan. 17, 1993.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, July 5- October 10, 2001
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 136, Department of African and Amerindian, October 31, 2013-February 20, 2014

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