Necklace

Arts of the Americas

1904–5

Jessie M. Preston
American, 1873–1962
Chicago

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Jessie M. Preston
Title: Necklace
Place: Chicago (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. 1904–1905
Medium: Gold-washed silver and opal
Dimensions: 35 × 4.5 cm (13 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Neville and John Bryan; through prior acquisition of various donors
Reference Number: 2006.34

Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005–2006), p. 22.
Carlieanne Kaufman Erickson, “A Craft of Their Own: Women and Metalworking in the American Crafts Movement in Boston and Chicago” (M.A. thesis, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution; and Parsons The New School for Design, 2012), p. 46, fig. 3.43.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 74 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 74 (ill.).
Barbara Schnitzer, “The Lives and Times of Three Chicago Metalsmiths,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 13, 2020, https://www.artic.edu/articles/869/the-lives-and-times-of-three-chicago-metalsmiths, (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 106 (ill.).

With Skinner Auctioneers, Boston, December 10, 2005, lot 190; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.

Cat. 74 Necklace, 1904/5

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