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Exhibition history

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

Publications

The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1983–4, p. 68 (ill.). Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, "For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) no. 47.

Quick Overview

Artist: José Benito Ortega / American, 1858–1941 / New Mexico
Date: 1880–1907
Medium: Wood, fabric, gesso, and paint
Dimensions: 143.2 × 27.3 ✕ 17.8 cm (56 3/8 × 10 3/4 ✕ 7 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: sculpture
Style: Folk Art
Place: New Mexico
Department: Arts of the Americas
Credit line: Simeon B. Williams Fund
Accession no.: 1983.528

Provenance

With Robert Stolper Galleries, New York, NY; gift of Mrs. Lazzetta Gary to the La Jolla Art Center, La Jolla, CA, 1961; deaccessioned around 1964; sold to an unnamed New York dealer; sold to an unnamed California collector; with Rex Arrowsmith, Santa Fe, by 1983; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.