Water Pitcher ("American Modern" Dinnerware)

Arts of the Americas

1937–59

Russel Wright
American, 1904–1976
Made by Steubenville Pottery
Steubenville, Ohio

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Russel Wright
Title: Water Pitcher ("American Modern" Dinnerware)
Place: East Liverpool (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: Glazed earthenware
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,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 59–61, cat. 16.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of CHicago, From World War I to 1955, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 110.

Beryl Michels (d. 2015), c. 1947–52 [according to Committee on American Arts minutes dated Oct. 12, 1995]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.

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