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Property from a New York Collection

Harvey Ellis

Side Chair

Auction Closed

June 7, 06:14 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a New York Collection

Harvey Ellis

Side Chair


circa 1903

inlays executed by the workshop of George Henry Jones, New York

executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, New York

oak, pewter, copper and wood inlay, fabric upholstery

with the firm's decal

42¾ x 16¾ x 18½ in. (108.6 x 42.5 x 47 cm)

Private Collection, Mesa, Arizona
Acquired from the above by the present owner
"Structure and Ornament in the Craftsman Workshops," The Craftsman, January 1904, p. 396
Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876-1916, exh. Cat., Princeton, 1972, p. 36
Isabelle Anscombe and Charlotte Gere, Arts & Crafts in Britain and America, New York, 1978, p. 147
Stephen Gray and Robert Edwards, eds., Collected Works of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1981, p. 53
Leslie Green Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990, p. 80 (for a related rocking chair)
David M. Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Philmont, NY,  1996, p. 131
David M. Cathers, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, pp. 92 and 127
David M. Cathers, Gustav Stickley, London, 2003, p. 223
Kevin W. Tucker, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, 2010, p. 146
David Cathers and Susan J. Montgomery, Arts and Crafts Furniture from the Collection of the Two Red Roses Foundation, Palm Harbor, FL, 2017, p. 219