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Tunic

Wari · 600-800

Provenance

Ownership history

Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children, Mercedes Gaffron, Durham, SC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Ancient Arts of the Andes, Jan. 25-Mar. 21, 1954; Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
Art Institute of Chicago, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the Nineteenth Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, October 10, 1992–January 3, 1993, cat. 6; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Feb. 4-Apr. 18, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6-Aug. 15, 1993 (Chicago only).
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 136, Department of African and Amerindian, Apr. 10-Aug. 28, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas, Gallery 136, Nov. 16, 2017-Jun. 6, 2018.
Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas rotation, Gallery 136, Dec. 13, 2022-Aug. 29, 2023.

Literature

Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Doering, Kunstgeschichete des Altan Peru (Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1924), pl. III.
Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Doering, The Art of Old Peru (Ernst Wasmuth, 1924), pl. III.
Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, The Art of Ancient Peru (Frederick A. Praeger, 1952), 31, pl. 101.
Wendell C. Bennett, Ancient Arts of the Andes, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1954), 13, 81, figs. 6 and 91.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, “Ancient Arts of the Andes: Stylistic Aspects,” Minneapolis Institute of Art Bulletin 43 (1954), 35 and 38, fig. 7.
Erwin O. Christensen, Primitive Art (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1955), 231, fig. 252.
Arthur Szathmary, Scholar, Critic, and Layman (Art Treasures of the World, 1955), 12-13 (ill.).
Alan R. Sawyer, "Report on an Andean Expedition," Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly L, 1 (February 1956), 8 (ill.).
S. K. (Samuel Kirkland) Lothrop, Treasures of Ancient America: The Arts of the Pre-Columbian Civilizations from Mexico to Peru (Skira, 1964), 216 (ill.).
Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), ill. 30.
Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 13 and 19, pl. 5.
Rebecca R. Stone, “Technique and Form in Huari-Style Tapestry Tunics: The Andean Artist, A. D. 500-800” (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1987), 11, cat. 6.

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