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Pomona

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · Figure design 1882, background design 1898, made 1906

Provenance

Ownership history

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1877–1947), London, from 1906 [purchased at Merton Abbey Tapestry Works, London, according to Thurman in Brosens, 2008, pp. 352-355; Day Book 9, p. 82 received at AIC on Dec. 12, 1917]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1919.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
Art Institute of Chicago, Tapestries from the Permanent Collection, June 30–Sept. 30, 1979.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, A Selection of Fabrics from the 1880s-1940s from the Permanent Collection, Nov. 13, 1982–Feb. 15, 1983.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.
Art Institute of Chicago, Morris and Company: The Business of Beauty, Dec. 18, 2021–June 13, 2022, no cat.

Literature

Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 33, plate 17.
Christa M. Thurman, "Tapestry: The Purposes, Form, and Function of the Medium from its Inception until Today," in Acts of the Tapestry Symposium, November 1976 (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1978), 17, fig. 17.
Linda Parry, William Morris Textiles (New York: The Viking Press, 1983), 107-9, 112.
Christa C Mayer-Thurman, The Department of Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989) 100-1, 103, 147.
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 237.
Koenraad Brosens, "Pomona from Flora and Pomona," in Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 352-355, cat. 59.
Judith Barter, ed., Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009) 21, 13.

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