Pair of Armchairs

1. Samuel A. Marx (1885-1964) and Florene Marx (1903-1995; born Florene May; also Mrs. Martin Straus, later Mrs. Wolfgang Schoenborn, also Florene M. Schoenborn), Chicago, by Feb. 3, 1941 [photograph of dining room of the Marx apartment with chairs in situ, 1325 North Astor Street, Chicago, Feb. 3, 1941, Chicago History Museum, HB-06194-Z and HB-06194-0, Hedrich-Blessing Collection; on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from Oct. 24, 1962]; to Florene May Schoenborn, Chicago then New York, 1964; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• University of Chicago, <em>Renaissance Society, Art Deco Trends in Design</em>, May 1–June, 9, 1973, not in cat., [1970.1217.1 only].
• St. Louis Art Museum, <em>St. Louis Modern</em>, Nov. 8, 2015–Jan. 31, 2016, cat., [1970.1217.1 only].
• New York, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, <em>The Designs of Dorothy Liebes: A Dark, A Light, A Bright</em>, July 7, 2023–Feb. 4, 2024, cat., [1970.1217.1 only].

• James Ford and Katherine Morrow Ford, <em>Design of Modern Interiors</em> (Architectural Book Publishing and Cornwall Press, 1942), 60 (ill. dining room in Samuel Marx apartment, Chicago, IL).
• David Lowe, <em>Lost Chicago</em> (Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1975), 477 (ill. dining room in Samuel Marx apartment, Chicago, IL).
• Milo Naeve, <em>Identifying American Furniture</em> (Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1981), 54, no. 113 (Ill.).
• David Hanks and Jennifer Toher, <em>Donald Deskey, Decorative Designs and Interiors</em> (E.P. Dutton, 1987), 49, 58-59, fig. 69 (ill.).
• Eileen and Richard Dubrow, <em>Styles of American Furniture 1860-1960</em> (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1997), 168 (ill).
• Liz O’Brien, <em>Ultramodern: Samuel Marx: Architect, Designer, Art Collector</em> (Pointed Leaf Press, 2007).
• David Conradsen and Genevieve Cortinovis with Mary Reid Brunstron, <em>St. Louis Modern</em>, exh. cat. (MO: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2015), 84-86, cat. 37 (ill.).
• Susan Brown and Alexa Griffith Winton, <em>The Designs of Dorothy Liebes: A Dark, A Light, A Bright</em>, exh. cat. (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum with Yale University Press, 2023), 20-21, fig. 6 (ill).

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Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts Collection

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New York World's Fair Collection

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Rue du Chasseur, Rouen

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Untitled

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Drypoint Number Five: Portrait

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