
Art Institute of Chicago
Teardrop Bottle
Gertrud Natzler · 1963
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artists, Los Angeles, 1963 [incoming receipt, RX4355, June 18, 1963; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4225/ceramics-by-gertrud-and-otto-natzler"><em>Ceramics by Gertrud and Otto Natzler</em></a>, Apr. 13–June 9, 1963, cat. 12.
- Washington, DC, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, <em>Form and Fire: Natzler Ceramics, 1939–1972</em>, July 27–Oct. 22, 1973, cat. 89.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Ceramics by Gertrud and Otto Natzler</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1963), n.p., cat. 12.
- Renwick Gallery, <em>Form and Fire: Natzler Ceramics 1939-1972</em>, exh. cat. (Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1973), 65, cat. 89, as <em>Teardrop bottle (M633)</em>.
- Jennifer M. Downs, “‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” in “Shaping the Modern: American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago, 1917–65,” special issue, <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, no. 2 (2001): 84–88, cat. 24 (ill).
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em>, (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 325-328, cat. 167 (ill.).
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