Screen LibraryThe artistic furniture of Charles Rohlfs /
"Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) ranked among the most innovative furniture-makers at the turn of the twentieth century. Praised by the international press and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. his beautiful works grew out of an interesting mix of styles that included Arts and Craft...
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American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation ; Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : New Haven : |
| Publication Dates: | [2008] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) ranked among the most innovative furniture-makers at the turn of the twentieth century. Praised by the international press and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. his beautiful works grew out of an interesting mix of styles that included Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and proto-modernism. This book presents the first major study of this important American designer and craftsman, drawing on new photographs and fresh sources of information." "Alongside traditional historical approaches, the book presents detailed formal, structural, and stylistic analyses of Rohlfs's well-known masterpieces from major museums, together with lesser-known objects in public and private collections. Topics include discovering the contribution of Rohlfs's wife - mystery novelist Anna Katharine Green - to his designs; the far-ranging sources of his idiosyncratic motifs; his influence on Gustav Stickley's designs; his commissioned interiors; his efforts at self-promotion and marketing; and his attempts to define a conceptual framework for his artistic endeavor. Handsomely designed and illustrated, the book also features a complete set of unpublished period illustrations of more than seventy works."--Jacket. |
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"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs', organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, Chipstone Foundation, and American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation"--Title page verso. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Milwaukee Art Museum and four other institutions between May 2009 and Jan. 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 282 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 273) and index. |
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9780300145465 9780300139099 0300139098 0300145462 |
| Index Number: | NK2439 |
| CLC: | TS666.712-28 |
| Call Number: | TS666.712-28/C973 |
| Contents: | Introduction / Sarah Fayen -- Memories, pleasures, and promises -- A corner in the study of Anna Katharine Green -- Grandeur never before experienced -- From casting about to a graceful writing set -- The Rohlf's furniture -- The true and false in furniture -- A new art and a new artist -- The city of light -- An artist who works in wood -- Twentieth-century progressive yet strictly American -- Growing old gracefully -- Appendix : Illustrations of works by Charles Rohlfs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |