Art Institute of Chicago

Manhattan Cocktail Set

Norman Bel Geddes · Designed 1934–35; produced c. 1939–41

Provenance

Ownership history

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1399/art-and-appetite-american-painting-culture-and-cuisine">Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine</a>, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 95; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014 (Chicago only).

Literature

Wright, Chicago, Modern Design, sale cat. (Wright, Mar. 20, 2005), 156, lot 270.
Brandy Culp, “New Acquisition,” News and Events: The Art Institute of Chicago (July/August, 2005), 4.
"Acquisitions," Annual Report, 2004–2005 (Art Insitute of Chicago, June 2005), 16.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 222–24, cat. 102 (ill.).
Judith Barter et al., Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 130, 229, cat. 95, fig. 24 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, ed. America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2016), fig. 3, 20.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), fig. 11 (ill.) 20.

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