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Portière

George Washington Maher · 1901

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Princeton, NY, Princeton University Art Museum, The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, Oct. 17–Dec. 17, 1972.
Art Institute of Chicago, Feb.24–Apr. 22, 1973.
Washington, DC, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Art, Smithsonian Institution, June 1–Sept. 10, 1973.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, A Selection of Fabrics from the 1880s–1940s from the Permanent Collection, Nov. 13, 1982–Feb. 15, 1983.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, A Birthday Celebration: 100 Years of Antiquarian Society Textile Collecting 1890–1990, Sept. 11–Febr. 17, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection, Feb. 17–May 2, 1993.
Art Instiute of Chicago, Prairie School: Design Vision for the Midwest, Oct. 14, 1995–Jan. 7, 1996.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://archive.artic.edu/apostlesbeauty/"><em>Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago</em></a>, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 88.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Modern Velvet: A Sense of Luxury in the Age of Industry, Oct. 21, 2016–Mar. 19, 2017.

Literature

Arthur C. David. "The Architecture of Ideas," Architectural Record, April 1904. p. 377 (illus.).
David A. Hanks. "The Arts and Crafts Movement in America: 1876–1916," Apollo, February 1973. p. 183-88 (illus.).
J. Allen. "The Artists and Craftsmen (1876–1916)," Arts and Fun/Book Section, Chicago Tribune, February 18, 1973, Cover (illus.).
The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago, The First One Hundred Years (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), p. 210 (Illus.), no. 278.
The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), p. 238.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), p. 116 (illus.), pp. 117, 148.
Judith A. Barter, ed., <em>Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 171–72, 196, cat. 88, fig. 21 (ill.).

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