Water Pitcher ("American Modern" Dinnerware)

Arts of the Americas

1937–59

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Russel Wright
Title: Water Pitcher ("American Modern" Dinnerware)
Place: Steubenville (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1937–1959
Medium: Earthenware and glaze
Inscriptions: Impressed bottom, stamped: "Russel / Wright" [in script] / MFD. BY / STEUBENVILLE / USA".
Dimensions: 27 × 21.6 × 16.8 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Beryl C. Michels
Reference Number: 1995.246

Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” “Shaping the Modern: American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago”, special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 2 (2001): 59–61, cat. 16 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 110, cat. 77 (ill.).

Beryl C. Michels (1923-2015; born Beryl Cohn), Chicago then West Hartford, CT, from c. 1947–52 [according to Committee on American Arts minutes, Oct. 12, 1995; incoming receipt, RX20946, Sept. 26, 1995; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.

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