
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Mantle
Paracas · 100 BCE-200 CE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Unknown private collector, by 1933; sold Puttick & Simpson, London, Oct. 5, 1933 [“Catalogue of a Collection of Peruvian Antiquities,” lot 15, Oct. 5, 1933; copy in curatorial object file]. John Wise, New York, by 1969 [corrspondence with J. Wise, 1969; incoming receipt RX7353, Jan. 26, 1970; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Textile Acquisitions Since 1967, July 10, 1972–Apr. 30, 1973.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, May 29- Sept. 11, 1985.
- Art Institute of Chicago, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the Nineteenth Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Aug. 25, 1989- Feb. 27, 1990.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 214; travelled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Feb. 4-Apr. 18, 1993, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6-Aug. 15, 1993 (Chicago only).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, Gallery 136, Sept. 27, 2011-Apr. 10, 2012.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9122/super-natural-textiles-of-the-andes">Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes</a>, Feb. 23-June 16, 2019, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Christa C. Mayer-Thurman, “Recent Textile Accessions,” Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago 66, 2 (Nov.-Dec. 1972): 6-7, fig. 1.
- Anne Paul, “Paracas Necropolis Textiles: Symbolic Visions of Coastal Peru,” in The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, exh. cat., Richard F. Townsend, ed. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 278, color fig. 1.
- Alan R. Sawyer, Early Nasca Needlework (London: Laurence King Publishing, 1997), 111-13, color fig. 81.
- Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 270 (detail) and 285, cat. 277.
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