Pitcher

1911

Robert Riddle Jarvie
American, 1865–1941
The Jarvie Shop
American, c. 1900–17
Chicago

Status: On View, Gallery 179
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Robert Riddle Jarvie
Title: Pitcher
Place: Chicago (Object made in)
Date: 1911
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Mark: Struck incuse "Jarvie / STERLING" on under side. Engraved on bottom: PRESENTED TO / CHARLOTTE AILEEN HENRY / ON HER WEDDING DAY / OCTOBER THE TENTH / NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN / BY / ALBERT AND MARY GRAY / ROBERT AND LILLIAN JARVIE / SAMUEL AND WINIFRED GRACIE / JAMES WILBUR GRAY / Made by the Shop of Robert Jarvie Chicago / STERLING
Dimensions: 25.4 × 15.2 × 19.1 cm (10 3/16 × 6 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Raymond W. Sheets
Reference Number: 1973.357

David A. Hanks, “Robert R. Jarvie, Chicago Silversmith,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 68, 3 (May–June 1974), 15–19 (ill.).
C. Malcolm Watkins, The Craftsman in America, 90 (ill.) (Washington, D.C., The Smithsonian Institution, 1975).
David A. Hanks, “Robert R. Jarvie, Chicago Silversmith,” Magazine Antiques 110, 3 (Sept. 1976), 522–27, pl. 2.
Milo M. Naeve, “The Edwardian Era and Patrons of American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago: The Birth of a Tradition,” America’s International Exposition of Fine Arts and Antiques (Chicago, Lakeside Group, 1988), 26, fig. 13.
Annelies Krekel–Aalberse, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver (Abrams, 1989), 103, 114, no. 102.
American Arts and Crafts (Phaidon, 1991), ill.
Isabelle Anscombe, Arts and Crafts Style (Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, 1991), 61 (ill.), 135.
Patricia Patton, The Work of Robert Riddle Jarvie: American Arts and Crafts Metalsmith (M.A. thesis, Cooper–Hewitt Museum/Parsons School of Design, 1991), no. 25.
Sotheby’s Concise Encyclopedia of Silver (London, Conran Octopus, 1992), ill.
Elyse Zorn Karlin, The Arts and Crafts Jewelry Movement in Europe (Schiffer, 1992), ill.
Judith A. Barter, “The Prairie School and Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 21, 2 (1995), 112–133, cat. 23 (ill.)
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 309–11, no. 159.
James Massey and Shirley Maxwell, Arts and Crafts Design in America: A Guide (Archetype Press, 1998), ill.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 309–311, no. 159.
Elyse Zorn Karlin, “Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts and Crafts Tradition,” (Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2004, 2nd ed.), 242 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 78 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 78 (ill.).
Barbara Schnitzer, “The Lives and Times of Three Chicago Metalsmiths,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct 13, 2020, https://www.artic.edu/articles/869/the-lives-and-times-of-three-chicago-metalsmiths, (ill.).

Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, The Pre–Raphaelite Era, 1848–1905, Apr 12–Jun 6, 1976, p. 178 (ill.).
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Metalsmiths, May 21–Oct 23, 1977, cat. 74.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Art that is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875–1920, Mar 4–May 31, 1987, cat. 140; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Aug 16–Nov 1, 1987, Detroit Institute of Arts, Dec 9, 1987–Feb 28, 1988, New York City, Cooper–Hewitt Museum, Apr 5–Jun 26, 1988.
Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Imagining an Irish Past, Feb 6–Jun 7, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Nov 7, 2009–Jan 31, 2010, cat. 62.

Charlotte Aileen Henry Sheets (1889-1957), Rockford, Illinois, 1911; to her husband, Raymond Warde Sheets (1889-1986), Rockford, Illinois, 1957; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.

Cat. 78 Pitcher, 1911

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