Crafting Modernism: Masters of the American Studio Design Movement from the Pinnacle Art Collection

Crafting Modernism: Masters of the American Studio Design Movement from the Pinnacle Art Collection

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Wharton Esherick

Pair of Three-Legged Stools

Auction Closed

June 10, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Wharton Esherick

Pair of Three-Legged Stools


1958-1959

walnut

each monogrammed WE with original paper labels and respectively dated 1958 and 1959

largest: 25¾ x 17 x 16 ¾ in. (65.4 x 43.2 x 42.5 cm)

Sollo/Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa late 1990s
Lee Nordness, Objects: USA, New York, 1970, p. 252
Wharton Esherick 1887-1970: American Woodworker
, exh. cat., Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, 1996, p. 19
Mansfield Bascom, Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind, New York, 2010, pp. 185, 206 (for a period photograph of the model) and 261