About This Artwork

Wilhelm Hunt Diederich
American, born Hungary, 1884-1953
Made by the Art Metal and Iron Company, New York

Wolf and Goat Fire Screen, 1917/20

Cut steel, wrought iron, and steel mesh
85.1 x 113.7 x 27 cm (33 1/2 x 44 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
Restricted gift of Marilyn Karsten in honor of her children: Lesley, Thomas Jr., Liza, and Timothy Karsten, 1998.566

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Jennifer M. Downs, “'The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), pp. 23-25, no. 2.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 18.

Ownership History

Conner-Rosenkranz, New York, by 1998; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.