Polychrome Jar

Arts of the Americas

c. 1880

Ceramist unknown (Acoma)
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Pueblo of Acoma
Title: Polychrome Jar
Place: Pueblo of Acoma (Artist's nationality:)
Date: c. 1880
Medium: Earthenware and slip
Dimensions: 31.8 × 36.8 cm (12 1/2 × 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Charles and Marjorie Benton
Reference Number: 2012.581
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Alfred Dittert, Jr., and Fred Plog, Generations in Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest, exh. cat. (Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press in cooperation with American Federation of Arts, 1980), 44, fig. 36 (ill.).

Flagstaff, AZ, Generations in Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest (organized by American Federation of Arts, New York), July 1980–Oct. 1980, cat. fig. 36; Richmond, VA, Museum of Fine Arts, Nov. 18, 1980–Jan. 4, 1981; Madison, WI, Elvehjem Museum of Art [Chazen Museum of Art], University of Wisconsin–Madison, Feb. 8–Mar. 29, 1981; Evanston, IL, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, May 13–June 28, 1981; Santa Ana, CA, Bowers Museum, closed Sept. 30, 1981; Midland, MI, Midland Center for the Arts, Nov. 1–29, 1981; Seattle Art Museum, Jan. 21–Mar. 14, 1982; Phoenix, AZ, Heard Museum, May–June 6, 1982.

Marjorie and Charles Benton (1931–2015), Evanston, IL, from 1970s [according to note written by R. Townsend in curatorial object file; Dittert and Plog 1980, 44; on loan to the AIC from Nov. 1, 2010]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

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