
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Lidded Container
Northern Nguni · Mid–late 19th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Merton D. Simpson Gallery, New York, before 1979 [this and the following according to personal communication with Linda Einfeld, 1987, documented in curatorial file]; sold to Linda Einfeld Sigel, Linda Einfeld Primitive Art, Chicago, Ill.; sold to the Art Institute, 1979.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Knoxville, Tenn., Frank H. McClung Museum, The World Moves, We Follow: Celebrating African Art, Jan. 10–May 18, 2003.
Literature
Published references
- William J. Dewey, The World Moves, We Follow: Celebrating African Art, exh. cat. (Knoxville, Tenn.: Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, 2003), pp. 41, pl. 42.
- Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” African Arts 32, 4 (Winter 1999), pp. 31, fig. 16.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), pg. 11.
- Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 72, pp. 180-181 (ill.).
- Constantine Petridis, "Making Objects Speak at the Art Institute of Chicago: A New Publication and a Refurbished Arts of Africa Gallery," in Tribal Art magazine (No. 99, Spring 2021), p. 115 (ill.).
- Y. Biro and C. Petridis (eds.). Les arts africains histoire et dynamique (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2025), p. 457 (ill.).
- James Rondeau (ed.), Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2026), cat. no. 87, p. 120 (ill.).
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