Andirons

1912

George Grant Elmslie (American, born Scotland, 1869–1952)

Status: On View, Gallery 178
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: George Grant Elmslie
Title: Andirons
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.: 1912
Medium: Brass, bronze, and cast iron
Dimensions: 26.5 × 20 × 72.4 cm (10 7/16 × 7 7/8 × 28 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Harvey
Reference Number: 1971.788a-b

Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 313–15, no. 165.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 1900, June 18–Sept. 4, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 46.

The Henry B. Babson residence, Riverside, IL (destroyed 1960). Ruth D. (Mrs. George A.) Harvey, Orange, CA, by 1971; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.

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