Kast

1650–1700

Artist unknown (American, 17th–18th century)
New York area

Status: On View, Gallery 165
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Kast
Place: New York (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. 1660–1700
Medium: Oak and walnut
Dimensions: 170.8 × 168.3 cm (67 1/4 × 66 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Sanford Fund
Reference Number: 1949.489
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The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1951), no. 23.
“Work of the Antiquarian Society in Chicago,” Connoisseur 130, 528 (Oct. 1952), 148.
“A New Pennsylvania German Cupboard,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 50, 3 (Sept. 1956), 55 (ill.).
Meyric R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 74, 1 (July 1958), 51 (ill.).
Helen Comstock, American Furniture, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles (Viking, 1962), no. 82.
Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), no. 20.
Marshall B. Davidson, The Bantam Illustrated Guide to Early American Furniture (Bantam Books, 1980), 209, fig. 7.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1981), 4 (ill. no. 4).
Joseph T. Butler, Field Guide to American Antique Furniture (New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1985), no. 3, 265 (ill.).
Roderic H. Blackburn and Ruth Piwonka, In Remembrance of Patria (Albany Institute of History and Art, 1988), 261.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed. (Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1989), no. 126, 60 (ill.).
Marie Louise Kane, “American Kasten: The Dutch Style Cupboard of New York and New Jersey, 1650–1800,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (February, 1991), 1, 64–65 (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), 50–51, no. 3.
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), fig. 1, 39.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Kasten: The Dutch–Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650–1800, Jan. 19–Apr. 7, 1999, cat. 4.

Possibly Morris Schwartz, Hartford, CT, before 1949. Hyman Kaufman, Boston, by 1949; sold to George David Thompson, Pittsburgh, by 1949; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.

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