Plate by Rudolph Drach
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Plate

Rudolph Drach · 1792

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Edwin Atlee Barber (1851-1916), Philadelphia, by 1894; sold to the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, June 20, 1894 [Field Museum accession list, 371-77350; copy in curatorial object file]; by exchange to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1907.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, <em>The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of Their Arts 1683–1850</em>, Oct. 17, 1982–Jan. 9, 1983, cat. 3; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Mar. 5–May 15, 1983; San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, July 2–Sept. 3, 1983; <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7050/the-pennsylvania-germans-a-celebration-of-their-arts-1683-1850">Art Institute of Chicago</a>, Dec. 10, 1983–Jan. 29, 1984.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9202/photography-folk-art-looking-for-america-in-the-1930s"><em>Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s</em></a>, Sept. 21, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Edwin Atlee Barber, "Inscribed Pottery of the Pennsylvania Germans," <em>New England Magazine</em> 12 (Mar., 1895), 34 (ill. line drawing).
  • Edwin Atlee Barber, <em>Tulip Ware of the Pennsylvania-German Potters: An Historical Sketch of the Art of Slip-Decoration in the United States</em> (Patterson and White Co., 1903), 117–8, fig. 33 (ill. line drawing).
  • Hans Vogel, "Pennsylvaniendeutsche Volkskunst," <em>Hessische Heimat</em> 1, no. 3 (1951), 50–51 (ill.).
  • Beatrice B. Garvan and Charles F. Hummel, <em>The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of their Arts, 1683–1850</em>, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982), 175, cat. 3.
  • Scott T. Swank, <em>Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans</em> (Norton, 1983), 190.
  • Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, <em>For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2012), 35, cat. 5 (ill.).

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