About This Artwork
Artist unknown
Boston, Massachusetts
Desk and Bookcase1740/50
Mahogany with oak and white pine
238.7 x 104.8 x 61 cm (94 x 41 1/2 x 24 in.)
Major Acquisitions Centennial Fund, 1986.414
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Brock Jobe, “A Boston Desk-and-Bookcase at the Milwaukee Art Museum,” Antiques 140, 3 (Sept. 1991), pp. 413–19 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, Colonial to Contemporary, 3rd 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. 65-67, no. 14.
Ownership History
Joe Kindig, York, Penn., by 1960; Israel Sack, Incorporated, New York City, to 1986; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.