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The Filatrice (The Spinner)
Henry Kirke Brown · 1850
Provenance
Ownership history
- Commissioned by The American Art-Union, New York, 1850. Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, New York, by 1989 [incoming receipt, RX17688, Mar. 10, 1989; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- “Affairs of the Association,” <em>Bulletin of The American Art Union</em> 3 (July 1850): 51.
- “The Return to Be Made to the Members of 1850,” <em>Bulletin of The American Art Union</em> (Sept. 1850): 87–88.
- Wayne Craven, “Henry Kirke Brown: His Search for an American Art in the 1840s,” <em>American Arts Journal</em> 4, 2 (Nov. 1972): 52 (ill.).
- Marvin D. Schwartz, “It’s Growing! Chicago’s American Wing,” <em>Antiques and The Arts Weekly</em> (June 29, 1990): 1, 76–78 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 171–72, cat. 76 (ill.).
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