Swift

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

1840–50

Woodworker unknown (American, Shaker, active 19th century)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Shaker
Title: Swift
Place: Enfield (Artist's nationality:)
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. 1840–1850
Medium: Maple, birch, iron, and cotton twine
Dimensions: Unfolded: 54 × 51 × 57.2 cm (21 5/16 × 20 1/8 × 22 9/16 in.); Folded: 54 × 11.4 × 7.6 cm (21 5/16 × 4 1/2 × 3 in.)
Credit Line: Juli and David Grainger Fund
Reference Number: 1988.214
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Karla Klein Albertson, “Photography + Folk Art,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Nov. 19, 2019, https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/photography-folk-art, ill.

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

Edward Casazza, Kezar Falls, ME, by 1983; sold, May 27, 1983; with The Rathbun Gallery, Providence, by 1988; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

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