Art Institute of Chicago
Jar
Yoruba · Early/mid–20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Unnamed owner, New York, N.Y., by 1996; sold to Douglas Dawson Gallery, Chicago, Ill., 1996; sold to Keith Achepohl, Iowa City, Iowa, 1996; given to the Art Institute, 2005.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Des Moines, Iowa, Anderson Gallery, Drake University, Earthen Vessels: Central and West African Works of Fired Clay, Oct. 5–Nov. 3, 1996, cat. 23.
- Art Institute of Chicago, For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection, Dec. 3, 2005–Feb. 20, 2006, cat. 63.
Literature
Published references
- Kathleen Bickford Berzock, For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection (The Art Institute and Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 112-113.
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