Pair of Candelabra

Arts of the Americas

1920–21

Design attributed to Peter Berg (American, born Norway, 1885–1959)
Chased by Yngve Harald Olsson (American, born Denmark, 1896–1970)
Made by Kalo Shop (American, 1900–70)
Chicago

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artists: Peter Berg (Designer) , Kalo Shop (Firm) (Maker) , Yngve Harald Olsson (Silversmith)
Title: Pair of Candelabra
Places: United States (Artist's nationality:), Chicago (Object made in)
Date: c. 1920-1921
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Each monogrammed recto, bottom-middle, on base, engraved: "K". Each marked bottom, middle, on base, stamped: "STERLING / HAND WROUGHT [in a demilune] / AT THE KALO SHOP / C5".
Dimensions: Each, irregular: 40.1 × 22 × 22.4 cm (15 13/16 × 8 11/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Wesley M. Dixon, Jr. Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 1990.104.1-2

Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 82 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 82 (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.).
Bobbye Tigerman, et al., Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: DelMonico Books•Prestel, 2020), 50, cat. 13 (ill.).

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980, Oct. 14, 2021–Jan. 9, 2022; Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Mar. 17–Aug. 7, 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 9, 2022–Feb. 5, 2023; Milwaukee Art Museum, Mar. 24–July 23, 2023, cat. 13 (Stockholm, Los Angeles, and Milwaukee only).

With Varchmin Arts and Crafts Associates, Chicago, by 1988; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

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