American Renaissance: Including An Important Private Collection of Greene & Greene

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Lot 370
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Gustav Stickley

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Description

  • Gustav Stickley
  • Chair
  • with firm's red decal
  • oak with the original leather upholstery and brass tacks

Provenance

Charles and Jane Kaufmann, Portsmouth, NH, 1982-1996
Private collection, New York

Literature

Stephen Gray, The Early Work of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1987, p. 108 (for a related side chair, model no. 1295, illustrated in the firm's 1902 retail plates)
Stephen Gray and Robert Edwards, eds., Collected Works of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1981, p. 20 (for a period photograph showing a related model in the dining room of Gustav Stickley's 1903 Arts and Crafts exhibition in Syracuse, illustrated in The Craftsman, May 1903) and p. 35 (for a related model illustrated in The Craftsman, November 1902)
David Cathers, Gustav Stickley, New York, 2003, pp. 67 and 73 (for period photographs showing a related model)

Catalogue Note

This chair represents the only known example of this design.