About This Artwork
Robert Riddle Jarvie
American, 1865-1941
Pitcher1911
Silver
26 x 20.3 cm (10 1/4 x 8 in.); diam. of base 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)
Engraved on underside: "PRESENTED TO / CHARLOTTE AILEEN HENRY/ ON HER WEDDING DAY/ OCTOBER THE TENTH/ NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN / BY / ALBERT AND MARY GRAY / ROBERT AND LILLIAN JARVIE / SAMUEL AND WINIFRED GRACIE / JAMES WILBUR GRAY and Made by the Shop of Robert Jarvie Chicago / STERLING"
Gift of Raymond W. Sheets, 1973.357
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, The Pre-Raphaelite Era, 1848–1905, Apr. 12–June 6, 1976, p. 178 (ill.).
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Metalsmiths, May 21–Oct. 23, 1977, cat. 74.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Art that is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875–1920, Mar. 4–May 31, 1987, cat. 140; traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Aug. 16–Nov. 1, 1987, Detroit Institute of Arts, Dec. 9, 1987–Feb. 28, 1988, New York City, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Apr. 5–June 26, 1988.
Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Imagining an Irish Past, Feb. 6–June 7, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago," November 7, 2009-January 31, 2010, cat. 62.
Publication History
David A. Hanks, “Robert R. Jarvie, Chicago Silversmith,” Magazine Antiques 110, 3 (Sept. 1976), pp. 522–27, pl. 2.
Milo M. Naeve, “The Edwardian Era and Patrons of American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago: The Birth of a Tradition,” America’s International Exposition of Fine Arts and Antiques (Chicago, Lakeside Group, 1988), p. 26, fig. 13.
Annelies Krekel-Aalberse, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver (Abrams, 1989), pp. 103, 114, no. 103.
American Arts and Crafts (Phaidon, 1991), ill.
Soetheby’s Concise Encyclopedia of Silver (London, Conran Octopus, 1992), ill.
Elyse Zorn Karlin, The Arts and Crafts Jewelry Movement in Europe (Schiffer, 1992), ill.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 309–11, no. 159.
James Massey and Shirley Maxwell, Arts and Crafts Design in America: A Guide (Archetype Press, 1998), ill.
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. 309-311, no. 159.
Ownership History
The artist; gifted to Charlotte Aileen Henry, Rockford, Ill., 1911; Raymond W. Sheets, Rockford, Ill., 1957; gifted by him to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.