Spoon Rack

Arts of the Americas

1730–75

Artist unknown (American, active 18th century)
Probably New Jersey

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Spoon Rack
Place: New Jersey (Object Probably 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. 1730–1775
Medium: Yellow poplar and paint
Inscriptions: inscribed on back: "A903"
Dimensions: 55.9 × 20 × 5.1 cm (22 × 7 7/8 × 2 in.)
Credit Line: Thorne Rooms Exhibition Fund
Reference Number: 1946.600
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Edna E. Johnson, “American Craft Tradition in Household Art (1650–1850),” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 39, no. 5 (Sep–Oct. 1945), 70 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s, Sept. 21, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, no cat.

Collection of Bernard Behrend, Wellesley, MA; to Dr. and Mrs. Dudley Phelps Sanford; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.

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