Candelabrum

Arts of the Americas

c. 1905

Attributed to Jessie Preston (American, 1873–1962)
Chicago

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Jessie M. Preston
Title: Candelabrum
Place: Chicago (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. 1905
Medium: Silver plated brass
Dimensions: 32.4 × 8.9 cm (12 3/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of W. Scott Braznell
Reference Number: 2014.998

Annual report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014–15) online only.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 73 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 73 (ill.).
Barbara Schnitzer, “The Lives and Times of Three Chicago Metalsmiths,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 13, 2020, https://www.artic.edu/articles/869/the-lives-and-times-of-three-chicago-metalsmiths, (ill.).

Possibly Detroit Institute of Arts, Second Annual Exhibition of Applied Arts, Nov. 21–Dec. 12, 1905, p. 12.

Private collection, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; with W. Scott Braznell, New Haven, CT, by 2014; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

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