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Jimmy's Pot Shop, Miyoko Ito, 1949
Miyoko ItoAmerican, 1918–1983

Jimmy's Pot Shop

1949 · Print

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Where is “Jimmy's Pot Shop” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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About the work

This print depicts two media available to artists studying at Ox-Bow in the late 1940s: printmaking and ceramics. In a lengthy note to her friend Jean Kubota Cassill, Ito discussed the work Jimmy’s Pot Shop and referred to herself as a “bad printer.”

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2011.632

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PrintsLithographPost-war art20th centuryUnited States

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