
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Tall Case Clock
Uriah Dyer · 1820–84
Provenance
Ownership history
- Dr. Phineas A. Crooker (1847–1919), Washington, ME, by 1884; by descent to his son, Sebra W. Crooker (1895–1972), Damariscotta, ME, 1919; by descent to his wife, Ruth E. Crooker (1906–1995; born Welton), Damariscotta, ME, 1972; sold, Mark Jewell, Auctioneer, Gray, ME, to Charles E. Buckley (1919–2011), Mont Vernon, NH, July 22, 1990; with Peter Sawyer Antiques, Exeter, NH, 1996; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Kevin Kleinbardi, “Hoadley Tallcase tops Jewell’s July Sale,” <em>Antiques and The Arts Weekly</em> (Aug. 17, 1990), 52 (ill.).
- Phoebe Nichols, “Mark Jewell’s Summer Auction,” <em>Maine Antique Digest</em> 18, no. 9 (Sept. 1990): 26D (ill.).
- Mark Sisco, “Appleton, Main, Folk Artist Uriah Dyer,” <em>Maine Antique Digest</em> 20, no. 1 (Jan. 1992): 2E (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 231–33, cat. 106 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, <em>For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2012), 108–9, cat. 45, fig. 1 (ill.).
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