Polychrome Jar

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c. 1920

Isabel Medina Toribio, Aitiye’ (Zia Pueblo, c. 1884–1939)
Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico

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

Artist: Isabel Medina Toribio (Aitiye')
Culture: Zia Pueblo
Title: Polychrome Jar
Place: Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico (Object made in)
Date: c. 1920
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 31.7 × 34.3 cm (15 1/2 × 17 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Charles and Marjorie Benton
Reference Number: 2011.705
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Evan M. Maurer, The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 238, cat. 346.
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), 50, fig. 48.
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 70–71, cat. 41 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art, July 16–Oct. 30, 1977, cat. 346.
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. 48; 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, by 1977 [published as Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton in Mauer 1977, 238, cat. 346; on loan to the AIC from Nov. 1, 2010]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011.

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