Art Institute of Chicago
Talismanic Textile
Unattributed · Late 19th/early 20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- James Willis, San Francisco, Calif., about 1980 [personal correspondence with James Willis and Douglas Dawson]; sold to Douglas Dawson, Douglas Dawson Gallery, Chicago, Ill., 1999; sold to the Art Institute, 2000.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 142, The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation, Jan. 31–Apr. 24, 2007.
- Evanston, IL, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa, Jan. 26–July 21, 2019, cat. p. 249, fig. 16.9; traveled to Toronto, the Aga Khan Museum, Sept. 21, 2019–Feb. 23, 2020; and Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Apr. 8–Nov. 29, 2020 (Evanston and Washington D.C. only).
Literature
Published references
- Kathleen Bickford Berzock "Talismanic Textile," The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 33, 1 (2007), pp. 87-88.
- Kathleen Bickford Berzock, editor. 2019. Caravans of Gold: Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa. Exh. cat. Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University with Princeton University Press, p. 249 (ill).
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