Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain

Tunic

Wari · 600-800

Provenance

Ownership history

Pablo Soldi, Ica, Peru, by May 21, 1956 [incoming receipt RX1913, May 21, 1956, sent care of Rudolfo Byrne, Brooklyn, NY; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The Imagination of Primitive Man, Jan. 18-Feb. 25, 1962, cat. 282.
Durham, NC, Woman's College Library of Duke University, Art and Artifacts of Pre-Columbian Peru, Dec. 17, 1964-Jan. 20, 1965.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Mexican, Central, and South American Textiles: A Living Legacy, Oct. 28, 1992-Jan. 17, 1993.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, Apr. 10-Aug. 28, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas, Nov. 16, 2017- Jun. 7, 2018.
Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas rotation, Gallery 136, Dec. 13, 2022-Aug. 29, 2023.

Literature

Rebecca R. Stone, "Technique and Form in Huari-Style Tapestry Tunics: The Andean Artist, A. D. 500-800" (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1987), p. 12, cat. 8.
Rebecca Stone-Miller and Gordon F. McEwan, “The Representation of the Wari State in Stone and Thread: A Comparison of Architecture and Tapestry Tunics,” Res 19-20 (1990-1991), figs. 3, 25 and 29.
Susan E. Bergh, "Pattern and Paradigm in Middle Horizon Tapestry Tunics" (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1999), p. 354, fig. 107 and p. 769, cat. 145.
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago with Yale University Press, 2016), 333, cat 292.

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