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Harvey Ellis
Description
- Harvey Ellis
- A Superb and Rare Chair
with firm's decal
oak with copper, pewter and variously stained beechwood inlays and with the original rush seat
- executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, NY
Literature
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 36 (for another example of the model in the collection of David Cathers)
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990 (for a related model in the collection of Max Palevsky with the less elaborate inlaid design)
A. Patricia Bartinique, Gustav Stickley, His Craft: A Daily Vision and a Dream, Parsippany, NJ, 1992, p. 45 (for the model in the collection of Crabtree Farms)
David M. Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Philmont, NY, 1996, p. 54 (for a drawing of the model illustrated in The Craftsman, July 1903) and p. 55 (for the model in the collection of David Cathers)
David Cathers and Alexander Vertikoff, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, pp. 93 and 132 (for other examples of this model in the collections of Crabtree Farms and David Cathers)
Catalogue Note
The present model was produced with two variations of inlaid designs. This example is one of only a few chairs known to exhibit the more elaborate inlay variant.