Nesting Tables

Arts of the Americas

c. 1939

Eliel Saarinen (American, born Finland, 1873–1950)
J. Robert F. Swanson (American, 1900–1981)
Pipsan Saarinen Swanson (American, 1905–1979)
Made by Johnson Furniture Company (American, 1908–1983)
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Eliel Saarinen
Title: Nesting Tables
Place: Grand Rapids (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1939
Medium: Maple
Inscriptions: Stamped: Johnson-handley-Johnson Co. / Grand Rapids, Mich.; FHA
Dimensions: Largest table: 45.7 × 76.2 × 47 cm (18 × 30 × 18 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Suzanne Langsdorf in memory of Martyl and Alexander Langsdorf
Reference Number: 2006.194.1-3

Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2006–2007), 19.
Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 67–69, cat. 19.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 77. 127.
Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013–14) p. 1.

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Modern, Nov. 8, 2015–Jan. 31, 2016, cat. 29.

Suzanne Langsdorf, 1940; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.

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