About This Artwork

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
American, 1867-1959
Made by Steelcase, Inc.
American, established 1912

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.