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Property from a New York City Collection

Gustav Stickley

"Morris" Chair

Auction Closed

June 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a New York City Collection

Gustav Stickley

"Morris" Chair


circa 1905

model no. 332

executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, New York

oak, leather cushions

with firm's mark

42 x 31½ x 38¼ in. (106.7 x 80 x 97.1 cm)

Private Collection, Rhinebeck, New York, circa 1910
Thence by descent
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Stephen Gray and Robert Edwards, eds., The Collected Works of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1981, pp. 21, 37 and 62
Coy L. Ludwig, The Arts & Crafts Movement in New York State, 1890s-1920s, exh. cat., Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY, 1983, p. 60
A. Patricia Bartinique, Gustav Stickley, His Craft:  A Daily Vision and a Dream, Parsippany, NJ, 1992, pp. 70-71
Peter Barnet and MaryAnn Wilkinson, Decorative Arts 1900: Highlights from Private Collections in Detroit, Seattle, 1993, p. 39
David Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: Furniture Made by Gustav Stickley, L. & J.G. Stickley and the Roycroft Shop, Philmont, NY, 1996, p. 140
Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry, eds., International Arts and Crafts, London, 2005, pp. 147, 155 and 157
Judith A. Barter, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Chicago, 2009, p. 97
Kevin W. Tucker, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, exh. cat., Seattle, 2010, p. 114