Tall Clock by George Grant Elmslie
Art Institute of Chicago

Tall Clock

George Grant Elmslie · 1912

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Henry B. Babson House, Riverside, Ill., 1912; Hanzel Gallery, Chicago, 1971; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • NJ, The Art Museum, Princeton University, <em>The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876–1916</em>, Oct. 21–Dec. 17, 1972, cat. 79; <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6446/arts-and-crafts-movement-in-america">Art Institute of Chicago</a>, Feb. 24–Apr. 22, 1973, Washington, DC, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, June 1–Sept. 10, 1973.
  • Chicago Historical Society, <em>Chicago Furniture: Art, Craft, and Industry, 1833–1983</em>, Dec. 5, 1983–Aug. 31, 1984, no cat.; Washington, DC, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 12, 1984–Apr. 7, 1985, New York, Cooper Hewitt Museum, May 21–Aug. 25, 1985.
  • 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. 47.

Literature

Published references

  • E. Van Regay, The Western Architect 22, 1 (July 1915), 1–12 (ill.).
  • Hanzel Gallery Auction Catalogue, Apr. 25, 1971, no. 269.
  • Rob Cuscaden, “Clock of Three Architects,” Chicago Sun–Times, Jan. 30, 1972.
  • New Accession,” Apollo 95, 124 (June 1972), 504 (ill.).
  • Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1973), 8 (ill.).
  • Sir Francis Watson, The History of Furniture (Crescent, 1976), 237–67 (ill.).
  • Isabelle Anscombe and Charlotte Gere, Arts and Crafts in Britain and America (Rizzoli, 1978), 167, no. 230.
  • Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (American Association for State and Local History, 1981), 48, no. 96.
  • Sharon Darling, Chicago Furniture, Art, Craft, and Industry, 1833–1983 (W.W. Norton, 1984), 255 (ill.).
  • John S. Bowman, American Furniture (Exeter Books, 1985), 154 (ill.).
  • Lita Solis–Cohen, “Chicago Shows Off – Tastefully,” Maine Antiques Digest (Dec. 1988), 12B–15B (ill.).
  • Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), 27, no. 269.

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