Hanging Box with Lid

Arts of the Americas

1891

Attributed to Jacob Brunkeg
American, active late 19th century
Probably Michigan

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Title: Hanging Box with Lid
Place: Michigan (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.: 1891
Medium: Wood
Inscriptions: "Jacob Brunkeg 15 Sep 1891" "Denk An Mih"
Dimensions: 33 × 47 × 53.3 cm (13 × 18 1/2 × 21 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Harold Allen
Reference Number: 1997.557
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Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) no. 51.
Paul Jones,”Collection Highlight: Whittling Away in Anonymity,” Art Institute of Chicago, July 28, 2017, https://www.artic.edu/articles/625/whittling–away–in–anonymity.

Art Institute of Chicago, Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s, Sept. 21, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, no cat.

Harold Allen (1912-1998), Chicago, by 1997; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.

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