About This Artwork

Robert Riddle Jarvie
American, 1865-1941

Candlestick (one of a pair), 1905/15

Silver-plated bronze
35.7 x 8.1 cm (14 x 3 3/16 in.)
Engraved in script on base of one candlestick: "Jarvie/I"
Bessie Bennett and Mrs. Herbert Stern funds, 1973.377

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago," November 7, 2009-January 31, 2010, cat. 60.

Publication History

David A. Hanks, “Robert R. Jarvie, Chicago Silversmith,” Magazine Antiques 110, 3 (Sept. 1976), pp. 522–23, fig. 1.

Patricia Patton, The Work of Robert Riddle Jarvie: American Arts and Crafts Metalsmith (M.A. thesis, Cooper–Hewitt Museum/Parsons School of Design, 1991), no. 11.

Elyse Zorn Karlin, The Arts and Crafts Jewelry Movement in Europe (Schiffer, 1992), ill.

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 309-311, no. 158.

Ownership History

Macklowe Gallery, New York City, by 1973; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.