Desk by Felix Huntington
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Desk

Felix Huntington · 1775–90

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. General Ebenezer Huntington, Norwich, CT, to 1834; by descent to an unidentified granddaughter, c. 1885; George Smith Palmer, New London, CT, 1885; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1918; sold by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1948.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Nov. 3–Dec. 17, 1967, cat. 119.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 137 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (Framingham, MA, Old America Company, 1928), no. 629.
  • Walter A. Dyer, “An Outline of American Furniture: Part XI,” Fine Arts 18, 6 (May 1932), 29 (ill.).
  • M.M. Swan, “The Goddard and Townsend Joiner, Part II,” Antiques 49, 5 (May 1946), 295 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 43, 1 (Feb. 1949), ill.
  • The Antiquarian Society (1951), no. 30.
  • Meyric Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Antiques 74, 1 (July 1958), 53 (ill.).
  • Minor Myers, Jr., and Edgar de N. Mayhew, New London County Furniture 1640–1840 (Lyman Allyn Museum, 1974), cat. 58.
  • Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), no. 20.
  • Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1981), 22 (ill. no. 32).
  • Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed. (Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1989), no. 30 (ill. p. 10).
  • Robert F. Trent, “The Colchester School of Cabinetmaking, 1750–1800” American Craftsman and the European Tradition, 1620–1820 (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1989), 120.
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 104–105, no. 36.

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