Art Institute of Chicago
Chest
Attributed to the Valdés family (active 18th–19th centuries)LinkedCulture matchlcp-385b1f2b8154
- Date
- 1780–1830
- Medium
- Ponderosa pine, metal, and paint
- Culture
- New Mexico
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 109694
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This hand-carved chest belongs to a visually distinct group of works attributed to the Valdés family of carvers from what is now New Mexico. Chests such as this were the most common piece of furniture found in the region—multipurpose objects that also stood as decorative elements in homes and churches. In addition to the sculptural qualities of the geometric patterning and applied carved balls on this example, traces of red and black pigment reveal that it was once vibrantly painted.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor in honor of Nelson E. Smyth; purchased with funds provided by Warren L. Batts, Jamee J. and Marshall Field, Mrs. Frank L. Sulzberger, and Wesley M. Dixon Jr.
- Provenance
- Reportedly, Church of San Francisco de Asís (Assisi), Rancho de Taos, NM [Walter 1916, 9]. E. I. Couse (1866-1936; also Eanger Irving Couse), Taos, NM, by around 1910 [this and the following according to letter from Ernest E. Leavitt, Dec. 30, 1996; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent to his son and daughter-in-law, Kibby Whitman Couse (1894-1978) and Lucille Course (1896-1939; born Lucille Wrenn), New York then Tucson; sold to Wolfgang Pogzeba (1936–1982), about early 1970s [notarized statement from Wolfgang Pogzeba, Mar. 28, 1979; in curatorial object file]; sold to Forrest Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe, by 1983 [Taylor 1983, 43]; consigned to Streck's Auction Service, Santa Fe, 1986; sold, The Forrest Fenn Collection, Streck's Auction Service, Santa Fe, Aug. 15, 1986, lot 199 [invoice Aug. 15, 1986; copy in curatorial object file], to the Art Institute of Chicago.
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- Object type
- AAT300037336
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