Fire Screen

CC0 Public Domain Designation

c. 1855

Artist unknown
American, 19th century
New York or Boston

Status: On View, Gallery 174
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Fire Screen
Place: New York City (Object Possibly made in)
Date: c. 1855
Medium: Rosewood and white pine with needlepoint panel
Dimensions: 170.1 × 108.6 cm (67 × 42 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mary Waller Langhorne Endowment
Reference Number: 1989.155
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Peter Hill, Classic America 4, 1 (Spring 1989), 2 (ill.).
Marvin D. Schwartz, “It’s Growing! Chicago’s American Wing,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (June 29, 1990), 1, 76–78 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et ., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 182–83, no. 83.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art and the Empire City, New York: 1825–1861, Sept. 11, 2000–Jan. 7, 2001.

Samuel Herrup, New York, by 1989; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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