About This Artwork

Maija Grotell
American, born Finland, 1899-1973

Vessel, c. 1946

Glazed stoneware
18.7 x 20.0 x 19.4 cm (7 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
Base incised in script: "M G"
Bequest of Russell Tyson, 1964.527

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. 84-88, no. 24.

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. 165.

Ownership History

Russell Tyson, to 1964; bequeathed to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.