About This Artwork

Ilonka Karasz
American, born Hungary, 1903-1984

Pair of Salts, c. 1928

Nickel-plated copper alloy
4.5 x 7.3 cm (1 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.)
Restricted gift of Mrs. Ann P.K. Frankenthal, the Garden Club of Barrington, and the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Associates of the Woman's Board of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.236-237

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), pp. 41-42, cat. 10.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 59.

Ownership History

Fifty/50 Gallery, New York, by 1984; sold by them to the Art Institute, 1984.