Property from the Collection of Robert Kaplan, Maplewood, New Jersey
GUSTAV STICKLEY | A RARE REVERSE-TAPERED BOW-ARM "MORRIS" CHAIR, MODEL NO. 2340
Auction Closed
December 12, 09:10 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Collection of Robert Kaplan, Maplewood, New Jersey
GUSTAV STICKLEY
A RARE REVERSE-TAPERED BOW-ARM "MORRIS" CHAIR, MODEL NO. 2340
circa 1901
executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, New York
oak
39 x 36¼ x 29 in. (99 x 92 x 73.6 cm)
Private Family Collection, Boston, circa 1901
Collection of Stephen Grey, Philmont, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
At Home with Gustav Stickley: American Arts & Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, October 11, 2008-January 4, 2009
Stephen Gray, The Early Work of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1987, p. 41
Thomas K. Maher, The Kaufmann Collection: The Early Furniture of Gustav Stickley, Cincinnati, OH, 1996, p. 49 (for an example in ash)
David Cathers, Gustav Stickley, London, 2003, front cover and p. 44
Linda H. Roth and Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, eds., At Home with Gustav Stickley: American Arts & Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection, London, 2008, p. 75 (for the present lot illustrated)
Kevin W. Tucker, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, 2010, p. 121