Polychrome Jar

1920–30

Tomasita Shije Medina, Husreiti’ (Zia Pueblo, 1897–1990)
Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Tomasita Shije Medina (Husreiti')
Culture: Zia Pueblo
Title: Polychrome Jar
Place: Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico (Object made in)
Date: 1920-1930
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 45.7 × 53.3 cm (18 × 21 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Charles and Marjorie Benton
Reference Number: 2013.2

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), 49, fig. 46.
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 70, cat. 40.

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. 46; 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; published as Marjorie and Charles Benton Collection in Dittert and Plog 1980, 49, fig. 46; on loan to the AIC from Nov. 1, 2010]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011.

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