Salt (one of a pair)

c. 1928

Ilonka Karasz (American, born Hungary, 1896–1981)
New York

One of few women working in the Art Deco style in America, Ilonka Karasz favored simple geometric forms such as these cone-shaped salts, which emphasize the object’s function rather than its decoration. Karasz was born in Hungary and in 1913 immigrated to New York City, where she found success as a designer of ceramics, furniture, metalwork, textiles, and wallpaper.

Status: On View, Gallery 271
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Ilonka Karasz
Title: Salt (one of a pair)
Place: New York 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.: c. 1928
Medium: Nickel-plated copper alloy
Dimensions: 4.5 × 7.3 cm (1 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Ann P.K. Frankenthal, the Garden Club of Barrington, and the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Associates of the Woman's Board of the Art Institute of Chicago
Reference Number: 1984.237

Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 41–42, cat. 10.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 77. 59.

Fifty/50 Gallery, New York, by 1984; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.

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