About This Artwork

Artist unknown
Boston, Massachusetts

Desk and Bookcase, 1700/35

Walnut and white pine
228.6 x 104.1 x 61.3 cm (90 x 41 24 1/8 in. )
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson Fund., 1985.517

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, A Decade of Decorative Arts, Nov. 12-Jan. 4, 1987, cat. 38.

Publication History

Magazine Antiques 97 (Apr. 1970), p. 441.

Program for the Winter Antiques Show, New York City, 1985, p. 51 (ill.).

Annual Report of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985–1986 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), p. 8, pl. 13.

Lita Solis–Cohen, “Chicago Shows Off — Tastefully,” Maine Antiques Digest (Dec. 1988), pp. 12B–15B (ill.).

Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), p. 8 (ill.), no. 18.

Stuart Klawans, “The Art Institute of Chicago at the Crossroads of America and the World,” Business Week 3180 (Oct. 1, 1990), pp.81–118 (ill.).

Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, Colonial to Contemporary, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History/AltaMira Press, 1997), ill.

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 60-61, no. 10.

Ownership History

David Stockwell, Wilmington, Delaware, by 1985; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.