A CARVED OAK HALL CHAIR
caption: The present model in Rohlfs' home, circa 1900
A CARVED OAK HALL CHAIR

CHARLES ROHLFS, 1900

Details
A CARVED OAK HALL CHAIR
CHARLES ROHLFS, 1900
57 in. (144.8 cm.) high
carved artist's monogram and 1900
Provenance
Christie's New York, June 11, 1994, lot 196

Lot Essay

cf. Will M. Clemens, "New Art and a New Artist", The Puritan, Vol. 5, February, 1899, p. 592.
"Furniture by Charles Rohlfs", Art Education, January 1901, p. 226.
Charlotte Moffit, "The Rohlfs Furniture", The House Beautiful, Vol. 7, No. 2, January, 1900, p. 85.
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement 1890 -1920, 1988, p. 47 pl. 18/19.
Leslie Bowman, American Arts and Crafts, Virtue in Design, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991, p. 60, pl. 26.
Drama in Design. The Life and Craft of Charles Rohlfs, Burchfield Art Center/Buffalo State College Foundation, 1994, p. 70, this model in Rohlfs' home (reproduced above).

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