Schrank

Arts of the Americas

c. 1790

Artist unknown (American, 18th century)
Berks County, Pennsylvania

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Schrank
Place: Berks County (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. 1790
Medium: Painted tulipwood
Inscriptions: inscription: (17 John Weidner 90) centered over door stop.
Dimensions: 204.5 × 176.5 × 56.9 cm (80 × 69 1/2 × 22 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Elizabeth R. Vaughan Fund
Reference Number: 1956.761
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Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012), no. 8.
Richard L. T. Orth, The Early Decorated Furniture of the Pennsylvania Duth: 18th-C. Bieber Family of Craftsmen & Other Folk Artists (Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, 2019), 118 (ill.).

With Agustus Pennypacker, Telford, Pennsylvania, by 1923; sold to Imogene Walker (also Mrs. Leroy Walker), Pennsylvania, 1923; sold to John S. Walton (1907–1985), New York, by 1956 [incoming receipt, RX1934, June 12, 1956; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

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