Wharton Esherick

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

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