Wharton Esherick

Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey, October 27, 2007, lot 430
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Dona Z. Meilach, Contemporary Art with Wood: Creative Techniques and Appreciation, New York, 1968, p. 181
Michael A. Stone, Contemporary American Woodworkers, Salt Lake City, 1986, p. 13
Wharton Esherick 1887-1970: American Woodworker, exh. cat., Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, 1996, p. 9 (for a period photograph of the model)
Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Gerald W. R. Ward, and Kelly H. L'Ecuyer, The Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture 1940-1990, Boston, 2003, p. 24
Wendy Moonan, "Modern Design as Period Style," The New York Times, October 26, 2007, n.p. (for the present lot illustrated)
Mansfield Bascom, Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind, New York, 2010, pp. 199 and 216 (for a period photograph of the model)
Glenn Adamson, Objects USA 2020, exh. cat., R & Company, New York, 2020, p. 41