About This Artwork

Paul Theodore Frankl
American, born Austria, 1886-1958
Made by Warren Telechron Co.
Ashland, Massachusetts

Clock, 1928/29

Bakelite, brush-burnished silver, chrome, and enamel
19.4 x 12.9 x 9.5 cm (7 5/8 x 5 1/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Gift of Susan and Jerome Kahn through the Antiquarian Society, 2000.129

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Christopher Long, Paul T. Frankl and Modern Design (Yale University Press, 2007), p. 101, fig. 89.

Jennifer M.Downs, “‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), pp. 30-32, no. 5.

Ownership History

The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.