About This Artwork

Made by the Kalo Shop
American, 1900-1970

Water Pitcher, 1910

Silver
18.4 x 16.5 cm (7 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Inscribed on base: "STERLING/HANDBEATEN /AT/KALO SHOPS/PARK RIDGE/ILLS./6863"

Stamped on bottom of pitcher: Initials "PO" entwined in applied monogram at side
Gift of Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson, 1973.345

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Metalsmiths, May 21–Oct. 23, 1977, cat. 48.

New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, High Styles: Twentieth–Century American Design, Sept. 19, 1985–Feb. 16, 1986, p. 39, fig. 1.38.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago," November 7, 2009-January 31, 2010, cat. 68.

Publication History

David Hanks, “Two Recent Acquisitions of American Silver,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 67, 4 (July/Aug. 1973), pp. 14–15 (ill.).

Anneliese Krekel-Aalberse, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver (Abrams, 1989), p. 112, no. 98.

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 311-312, no. 161.

Ownership History

Preston Owsley and Sterling Mortin, 1910; by descent to Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson; gifted by her to the Art Institute, 1973.