
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Parrot Olla
Pueblo of Acoma · c. 1880s
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, Pueblo of Acoma, NM, by 1901; sold to Henry G. Peabody (1855–1951), Pasadena, CA, c. 1902 [undated description of visit to Acoma by H. Peabody; Andrews 1965; Howard 1976; Harlow and Silverman 2005; copies in curatorial object file]. Richard M. Howard, Santa Fe, by 1976 to at least 1998 [Howard 1976; McCoy 1998]. Raymond Dewey, Dewey Galleries, Santa Fe, by 2001 [according to email from J. Silverman, May 18, 2013; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Jack Silverman, Silverman Museum Collection, Aspen, CO, and Santa Fe, by 2001 [Harlow and Silverman 2001]; sold, Bonhams and Butterfields, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 4, 2006, lot 4008, to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6669/the-native-american-heritage-a-survey-of-north-american-indian-art"><em>The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art</em></a>, July 16–Oct. 30, 1977, cat.
- Scottsdale Center for the Arts, <em>With Beauty All Around Me: The Art of the Native Southwest</em>, Feb. 20-Apr. 26, 1998, cat. (no cat. no.).
- Denver Public Library, <em>Pueblo Treasure from the Silverman Museum</em>, 2005, cat.
Literature
Published references
- Ralph W. Andrews, <em>Photographers of the Frontier West: Their Lives and Works 1875 to 1915</em> (Seattle: Superior Publishing, 1965), 168–17.
- Richard Howard, “A Magnificent Acoma Pot,” <em>American Indian Art Magazine</em> 1, no. 2 (Spring, 1976): 16–19 (ill.).
- Jerry Jacka and Spencer Gil, <em>Pottery Treasures: The Splendor of Southwest Indian Art </em>(Portland: Graphic Arts Center Publishing, 1976), 17 (ill.).
- Evan M. Maurer, <em>The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 232–233, cat. 331 (ill.).
- David L. Arnold, “Pueblo Pottery: 2,000 years of Artistry,” <em>National Geographic Magazine</em> 162, no. 5 (Nov. 1982): 593–605 (ill.).
- Ron McCoy with Martin Sullivan and Nathan Youngblood, <em>With Beauty All Around Me: Art of the Native Southwest</em>, exh. cat. (Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1998), 83 (ill.).
- Francis Harlow and Jack Silverman, <em>Pueblo Indian Pottery: A Portfolio of Archival Studies by Jack Silverman</em> (Aspen, CO: Silverman Museum, 2001), figs. 24 and 25 (ill.).
- Jack Silverman with Francis H. Harlow, <em>Pueblo Treasure from the Silverman Museum</em>, exh. cat. (Silverman Museum, 2005), 14, 62–65, 133, cat. 24 (ill.).
- Richard Townsend, “Black and White Storage Jar (Olla) with Abstract Geometric Motifs and Polychrome Storage Jar (Olla) with Macaw and Floral Motifs,” <em>Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 34, no. 1 (2008): 8–9 (ill.).
- Richard Townsend and Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “The Art Institute of Chicago New Galleries,” <em>Tribal Arts</em> XVI-1, no. 62 (Winter 2011), 63, fig. 9 (ill.).
- Dwight P. Lanmon and Francis H. Harlow, "The Pottery of Acoma Pueblo, Part Two: Acoma Polychrome (c. 1840-Present),” <em> American Indian Art Magazine</em> (Winter 2012): 71, fig. 8 (ill.).
- Dwight P. Lanmon and Francis H. Harlow, <em>The Pottery of Acoma Pueblo</em> (Museum of Mexico Press, 2013), 282–285, figs. 17, 19 (ill.).
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