Stamnos (Mixing Jar) by Chicago Painter
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Stamnos (Mixing Jar)

Chicago Painter · about 450 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Said to be found at either Capua, 1884 [Old Register at the Art Institute of Chicago] or Nola [William M.R. French, 1889 travel notebook, unpublished manuscript, Art Institute of Chicago Archives]. Augusto Mele, Naples, Italy; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago through J.C. Fletcher as agent, 1889; price reimbursed by Charles Hutchinson and Philip D. Armour, 1889.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Greek Vase Painting in Midwestern Collections, December 22, 1979-February 4, 1980, cat. no. 111.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, This is Not a Greek Vase Show, November 1, 1984-January 29, 1986.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Greek Vases - Form and Function, Gallery 101A, March 3, 1986-August 8, 1986.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Myth and Legend in Classical Art, Gallery 101A, March 1, 1987-August 31, 1987.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Greek and Roman Art: From the Permanent Collection (part 2), Gallery 120A, January 13, 1989 - September , 24, 1989.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, 1889: the First Year of the Classical Collection, Gallery 101A, October 3, 1989-January 2, 1991.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994-February 6, 2012 (excluding July 2009 -October 2009).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today, Regenstein Hall, July 11–September 20, 2009.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012-July 15, 2015;
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Dionysos Unmasked: Ancient Sculpture and Early Prints, Gallery 150 and 154, July 31, 2015-February 15, 2016.

Literature

Published references

  • William M.R. French, Notes [on a] journey to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hutchinson starting from New York Sat'y Mch. 9, 1889- , (unpublished manuscript, Art Institute of Chicago Archives), p. 23.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early and Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 40, no. 335.
  • A. Frickenhausen, Lenäenvasen (Berlin 1912), pp. 13-14 and 38 no. 5, pl. 4.
  • Alfred Emerson, “Vase Paintings by the Master of the Rustic Dionysia,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 9 (1915), pp. 52-53.
  • J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums (Harvard University Press, 1918), p. 155.
  • Joseph Clark Hoppin, A Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases, vol. I (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1919), p. 193, no. 3.
  • Mary Herford, A Handbook of Greek Vase Painting (Manchester: The University Press; New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1919), p. 36, pl. 1d.
  • Betty Grossman, "Greek Vase by the Chicago Painter," in Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, vol. 40, no. 1/2 (1955), p. 20.
  • J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), p. 628, no. 4.
  • Barbara Philippak, The Attic Stamnos, Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), pp. 111-2, fig. 15.
  • L. Berge, "Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 73, no. 5/6 (September-December 1979), pp. 10-11 (ill.).
  • J.-L. Durand and F. Frontisi-Ducroux, "Idoles, Figures, Images: Autour de Dionysos," Revue Archeologique (1982), p. 101 (ill.).

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