About This Artwork
Desk, 1937/39
Painted steel tubing, maple work surface with later laminated surface
96.5 x 212.7 x 138.8 cm (38 x 83 3/4 x 54 5/8 in.)
Gift of the Johnson Wax Company, 1972.310
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. 54-56, cat. 14.
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. 86.