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Author Cunningham, Joseph.

Title The artistic furniture of Charles Rohlfs / Joseph Cunningham.

Imprint New York : American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Oversize Stacks  749 R636Da 2008    ---  Available
Description xxi, 282 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Note "Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs', organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, Chipstone Foundation, and American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation"--T.p. verso.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Milwaukee Art Museum and four other institutions between May 2009 and Jan. 2011.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 273) and index.
Contents Introduction / Sarah Fayen -- Memories, pleasures, and promises -- A corner in the study of Anna Katharine Green -- Grandeur never before experienced -- From casting about to a graceful writing set -- The Rohlf's furniture -- The true and false in furniture -- A new art and a new artist -- The city of light -- An artist who works in wood -- Twentieth-century progressive yet strictly American -- Growing old gracefully -- Appendix : Illustrations of works by Charles Rohlfs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Subject Rohlfs, Charles, 1853-1936 -- Exhibitions.
Furniture design -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Rohlfs, Charles, 1853-1936.
Milwaukee Art Museum.
ISBN 9780300139099 (cloth: alk. paper)
0300139098 (cloth: alk. paper)
9780300145465 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0300145462 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000042989430

 
    
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