
Art Institute of Chicago
Lock
Frank L. Koralewsky · 1911
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, Everett, MA; to Richard T. Crane, c. 1920; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, <em>Arts and Crafts Exhibition</em>, May 17–June 10, 1911, cat. 684 (organized by the Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston).
- Boston, Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston, [Salesroom], Oct. 22–29, 1912.
- San Francisco, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, Feb. 20–Dec. 4, 1915 (awarded gold medal).
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, <em>“The Art That Is Life”: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875–1920</em>, Mar. 4–May 31, 1987, cat. 19; 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.
Literature
Published references
- <em>Exhibition of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Copley Hall</em> (Society of Arts and Crafts, 1907) 41, cat. 684.
- Frederick Krasser, "Something about Locksmithing and Hardware in General" <em>Handicraft</em> 3, no. 12 (Mar., 1911).
- "A Remarkable Iron Lock" <em>Art and Progress</em> 2, no. 6 (Apr., 1911): 181, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20560359">https://www.jstor.org/stable/20560359</a>.
- F. Allen Whiting, "Arts and Crafts: At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," <em>Art and Progress</em> 2, no. 9 (July, 1911): 263, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20560433">https://www.jstor.org/stable/20560433</a>.
- "A Wrought-Iron Lock," <em>Arts & Decoration</em> 1, no. 10 (Aug., 1911): 407 (ill.), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43799554">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43799554</a>.
- "Works by Master Craftsmen," <em>Art and Progress</em> 4, no. 2 (Dec., 1912) 811, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20560808">https://www.jstor.org/stable/20560808</a>.
- Ralph Bergengren, "An Adventure in the Medieval," <em>House Beautiful</em> 37 (Jan., 1915), 47.
- "Notes," <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 20, no. 6 (Sept., 1926): 84 (ill.), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4112038">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4112038</a>.
- "Accessions and Loans," <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 20, no. 7 (Oct., 1926): 101, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4120460">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4120460</a>.
- </em>International Studio</em> 84 (1926): 29.
- "Report of the Trustees," <em>Forty-Eighth Annual Report</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1926), 18 <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062810612?urlappend=%3Bseq=26%3Bownerid=3191226-30">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062810612?urlappend=%3Bseq=26%3Bownerid=3191226-30</a>.
- Katharine Gibson, <em>The Goldsmith of Florence: A Book of Great Craftsmen</em> (The MacMillian Company, 1929), 203 (ill.).
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