Plate with Landscape

Arts of the Americas

1923

Henry Varnum Poor (American, 1888–1970)
New City, New York

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Henry Varnum Poor
Title: Plate with Landscape
Place: New City (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.: 1923
Medium: Earthenware (red bodied), slip, colored underglaze decoration, and tin glaze
Inscriptions: Initialed recto, middle-right, along image edge, in black glaze: “HVP”. Stamped verso, middle-left and middle-right, on base, impressed three times: [Crowhouse mark, Henry Varnum Poor’s trademark].
Dimensions: 3.5 × 22.5 × 22.5 cm (1 7/16 × 8 7/8 × 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Logan Purchase Prize
Reference Number: 1923.355

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of the Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of Applied Arts under the Auspices of the Association of the Arts and Industries and the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), n.p., cat. 349. as Plate, “Landscape”.
Harold E. Dickson and Richard Porter, Henry Varnum Poor, 1887–1970, A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 1983), 42, 99, cat. 107 (ill.).
Jennifer M. Downs, “‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” in “Shaping the Modern: American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago, 1917-65,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 2 (2001): 22–23, 25, cat. 1 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of Applied Arts under the Auspices of the Association of the Arts and Industries and the Art Institute of Chicago, May 1–31, 1923, cat. 349, as Plate, “Landscape”.
New York, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, Exhibition of Contemporary American Crafts, Sept. 25–Nov. 30, 1958, no cat.
University Park, Pennsylvania State University Museum, Henry Varnum Poor, 1887–1970, A Retrospective Exhibition, Sept. 14–Nov. 20, 1983, cat. 107; Buffalo, NY, Burchfield Center, Western New York Forum of American Art, Dec. 11, 1983–Feb. 5, 1984; Syracuse, NY, Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County, Feb. 26–Apr. 22, 1984; New York, National Academy of Design, May 10–July 1, 1984.

The artist (1888–1970), New City, NY; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1923.

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