Art Institute of Chicago

Bottle Vase

Charles Fergus Binns · 1915

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist [Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Applied Art, 1916]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1916.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4808/applied-arts-art-crafts-15th-annual">Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Applied Arts</a>, Oct. 12–Nov. 15, 1916, cat. 185.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, “The Art That Is Life”: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875–1920, Mar. 4–May 31, 1987, cat. 177; Los Angeles County Museum, Aug. 16–Nov. 1, 1987; Detroit Institute of Arts, Dec. 9, 1987–Feb. 28, 1988; New York, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Apr. 5–June 26, 1988.
Washington, DC, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Charles Fergus Binns: The Father of American Studio Ceramics, Sept. 9, 1998–Jan. 3, 1999, cat. 41; Macon, GA, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Jan. 24–Mar. 14, 1999; IA, Muscatine Art Center, Apr. 11–June 27, 1999; Youngstown, OH, Butler Institute of American Art, Sept. 12–Nov. 2, 1999; NY, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Apr. 30–June 18, 2000; Ames, Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Aug. 20–Oct. 8, 2000.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://archive.artic.edu/apostlesbeauty/">Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago</a>, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 16.

Literature

Art Institute of Chicago, Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Applied Art and Original Designs for Decorations, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1916), n.p., cat. 185.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Accessions to the Museum," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 11, no. 2 (Feb. 1917): 278–79 (ill.), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4103428">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4103428</a>.
Wendy Kaplan, "The Art That is Life": The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875–1920, exh. cat. (Museum of Fine Arts, 1987), cat. 177 (ill.).
Jennifer M. Downs, “‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” "Shaping the Modern: American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago", special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 2 (2001): 28, fig. 1 (ill.), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4102828">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4102828</a>.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 132–33, fig. 55 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, ed., Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 109–10, 190, cat. 16, fig. 34 (ill.).

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