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The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs - Cunningham, Joseph; Barnes, Bruce; Fayen, Sarah; American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation - Yale University Press
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Oct 13, 2008
304 p., 9 3/4 x 12
16 b/w + 321 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300139099
ISBN-10: 0300139098
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Cloth: $65.00
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- Art and Architecture
Published in association with American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation
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The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
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Joseph Cunningham; With a foreword by Bruce Barnes and an introduction by Sarah Fayen
Winner of the 2009 Henry-Russell Hitchcock Book Award sponsored by the Victorian Society of America. Winner of the 2008 Charles F. Montgomery Prize for most distinguished contribution to the study of American decorative arts published in the English language, given by the Decorative Arts Society. Co-winner of the 2009 Henry Allen Moe Prize for catalogues of distinction in the arts, given bythe New York State Historical Association.
Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) ranked among the most innovative furniture makers at the turn of the twentieth century. Praised by the international press and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, his beautiful works grew out of an interesting mix of styles that included Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and proto-modernism. This book presents the first major study of this important American designer and craftsman, drawing upon new photographs and fresh sources of information. Alongside traditional historical approaches, the book presents detailed formal, structural, and stylistic analyses of Rohlfs’s well-known masterpieces from major museums, together with lesser-known objects in public and private collections. Topics include discovering the contribution of Rohlfs’s wife—mystery novelist Anna Katharine Green—to his designs; the far-ranging sources of his idiosyncratic motifs; his influence on Gustav Stickley’s designs; his commissioned interiors; his efforts at self-promotion and marketing; and his attempts to define a conceptual framework for his artistic endeavor. Handsomely designed and illustrated, the book also features a complete set of unpublished period illustrations of over seventy works.
Joseph Cunningham is the curator of American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation. His publications include Design Is Not Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread (2004). Bruce Barnes is founder and president of American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation. Sarah Fayen is assistant curator of the Chipstone Foundation and adjunct assistant curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Milwaukee Art Museum (June 6 – August 23, 2009) Dallas Museum of Art (September 20, 2009 – January 3, 2010) Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (January 30 – April 25, 2010) The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino (May 22 – September 6, 2010) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (October 19, 2010 – January 23, 2011) TITLES IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 
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