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The Filatrice (The Spinner)
Provenance
Commissioned by The American Art-Union, New York, 1850. Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, New York, by 1989 [incoming receipt, RX17688, Mar. 10, 1989; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.
Publications
“Affairs of the Association,” Bulletin of The American Art Union 3 (July 1850): 51. “The Return to Be Made to the Members of 1850,” Bulletin of The American Art Union (Sept. 1850): 87–88. Wayne Craven, “Henry Kirke Brown: His Search for an American Art in the 1840s,” American Arts Journal 4, 2 (Nov. 1972): 52 (ill.). Marvin D. Schwartz, “It’s Growing! Chicago’s American Wing,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (June 29, 1990): 1, 76–78 (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), 171–72, cat. 76 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henry Kirke Brown (American, 1814–1886) / Cast by the artist's foundry / Brooklyn, New York
- Date
- 1850
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 50.8 × 30.5 × 17.8 cm (20 × 12 × 7 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Place
- Brooklyn
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Roger McCormick Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 1989.59
More by Henry Kirke Brown in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001893
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