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Cabinet

Herter Brothers · 1878–80

Provenance

Ownership history

Henrietta Klenitzky (1889–1940; born Henrietta Goldenberg, also Mrs. Louis Klenitzky), Brooklyn, NY [this and the following according to letter from Margot Johnson, Feb. 5, 1986]; by descent to Frances Salzman (1907–1995; born Frances Klenitzky, also Frances Klenett, also Mrs. Samuel Salzman), Brooklyn, NY, about 1946; sold, Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 4–5, 1983, lot 342, to Margot Johnson, New York, NY; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7484/a-decade-of-decorative-arts-the-antiquarian-society-of-the-art-institute-of-chicago">A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago</a>, Nov. 12, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987, cat. 45.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Herter Brothers: European Furniture Makers in the American Gilded Age, Aug. 20–Oct. 22, 1994, cat.; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Dec. 12, 1994–Feb. 12, 1995; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 14–July 30, 1995.

Literature

Published references

Mildred Jailer, "Aesthetic Style on the Scene," Antiques Monthly 21, no. 7 (June 1986): 1 (ill.).
Priscilla St. Germain, "What's Happened With Herter?" Antiques Review (June 1986), 48–49 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, "A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago, Gifts to the Departments of American Arts and European Decorative Arts and Sculpture," Foresight, Fall 1986, 1–2 (ill.).
"A Decade of Collecting: The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago," Key Chicago, Nov. 15, 1986, cover (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, "A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago," Mosaic, Nov.–Dec., 1986, cover, 4 (ill.).
Rita Reif, "Antiques Browers Find Intimate Shops In Uptown Places," New York Times, Dec. 19, 1986, C1–2.
Milo M. Naeve, et al., A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), cover, 49, 71–73, cat. 48 (ill.).
American Association for State and Local History, "Contents," AASLH Spring 1988 Catalogue, Spring 1988, 1 (ill.).
Tom Armstrong, "The New Field-McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago," The Magazine Antiques 134, no. 4 (Oct. 1988): 822–35, pl. 14 (ill.).
Marvin Schwartz, "New Wing Presents Design, Colonial Period to Present," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (Dec. 30, 1988): 38–39 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Subscription Programs (Winter 1989–90): 4 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, "Twentieth-Cenury Craft: A Compass for Research," in A Neglected History: 20th Century American Craft (American Craft Museum, 1990), 45–59, fig. 3 (ill.).

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