About This Artwork
Artist unknown
New York, New York, or Boston, Massachusetts
Fire Screen, c. 1855
Rosewood and white pine with needlepoint panel
170.1 x 108.6 cm (67 x 42 3/4 in.)
Mary Waller Langhorne Endowment, 1989.155
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art and the Empire City, New York: 1825–1861, Sept. 11, 2000–Jan. 7, 2001.
Publication History
Peter Hill, “Classic America,” 4, 1 (Spring 1989), p. 2 (ill.).
Marvin D. Schwartz, “It’s Growing! Chicago’s American Wing,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly, June 29, 1990, pp. 1, 76–78 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et ., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 182-83, no. 83.
Ownership History
Samuel Herrup, New York, by 1989; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.