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
Wharton Esherick
Step Stool
Auction Closed
June 10, 03:47 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Wharton Esherick
Step Stool
1965
oak, cherry
monogrammed WE and dated 1965
34½ x 18 x 24½ in. (87.6 x 45.7 x 62.2 cm)
Private Collection, commissioned directly from the artist, late 1960s
Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey, February 5, 2011, lot 505
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey, February 5, 2011, lot 505
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Gertrude Benson, "Wharton Esherick," Craft Horizons, January-February 1959, vol. 19, no. 1, p. 36 (for a related example)
Michael A. Stone, Contemporary American Woodworkers, Salt Lake City, 1986, p. 9 (for a related example)
Wharton Esherick 1887-1970: American Woodworker, exh. cat., Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, 1996, pp. 8 (for a period photograph of the model exhibited at Armstrong Cork Company, 1962) and 20
Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 2002, p. 107 (for an example of the model in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Mansfield Bascom, Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind, New York, 2010, pp. 152 (for a related example), 231 (for the above mentioned period photograph) and 245
Michael A. Stone, Contemporary American Woodworkers, Salt Lake City, 1986, p. 9 (for a related example)
Wharton Esherick 1887-1970: American Woodworker, exh. cat., Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, 1996, pp. 8 (for a period photograph of the model exhibited at Armstrong Cork Company, 1962) and 20
Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 2002, p. 107 (for an example of the model in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Mansfield Bascom, Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind, New York, 2010, pp. 152 (for a related example), 231 (for the above mentioned period photograph) and 245