About This Artwork

Henry Kirke Brown
American, 1814-1886

The Filatrice (The Spinners), 1850

Bronze
50.8 x 30.5 x 17.8 cm (20 x 12 x 7 in.)
Unsigned
Roger McCormick Endowment, 1989.59

American Art
Gallery 172

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

“Affairs of the Association,” Bulletin of The American Art Union 3 (July 1850), p. 51.

“The Return to Be Made to the Members of 1850,” Bulletin of The American Art Union, 1850 (Sept. 1850), pp. 87–88.

Wayne Craven, “Henry Kirke Brown: His Search for an American Art in the 1840s,” American Arts Journal 4, 2 (Nov. 1972), p. 52 (ill.).

Marvin D. Schwartz, “It’s Growing! Chicago’s American Wing,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (June 29, 1990), pp. 1, 76–78 (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. 171-72, no. 76.

Ownership History

Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, New York City, by 1989; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.