Wharton Esherick
"Wagon Wheel" Armchair
Auction Closed
June 10, 03:47 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Wharton Esherick
"Wagon Wheel" Armchair
1939
oak, original woven leather, wrought iron
signed Wharton Esherick, dated MCMXXXIX and incised To the Pecks/Chick-Jean
40½ x 22⅞ x 23 in. (102.9 x 58.1 x 58.4 cm)
Marjorie Content and Jean Toomer, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, commissioned directly from the artist
Private Collection
Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey, February 5, 2011, lot 509
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private Collection
Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey, February 5, 2011, lot 509
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The Wharton Esherick Museum Studio and Collection, Paoli, PA, 1984, p. 24, fig. 76
Ray Hemachandra, 500 Chairs: Celebrating Traditional and Innovative Designs, Asheville, NC, 2008, p. 86
Paul Eisenhauer and Lynne Farrington, eds., Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern, exh. cat., University of Pennsylvania, Atglen, PA, 2010, p. 145 (for a drawing and period photograph of the model)
Mansfield Bascom, Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind, New York, 2010, pp. 120, 179 (for a period photograph of the model) and 220
Ray Hemachandra, 500 Chairs: Celebrating Traditional and Innovative Designs, Asheville, NC, 2008, p. 86
Paul Eisenhauer and Lynne Farrington, eds., Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern, exh. cat., University of Pennsylvania, Atglen, PA, 2010, p. 145 (for a drawing and period photograph of the model)
Mansfield Bascom, Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind, New York, 2010, pp. 120, 179 (for a period photograph of the model) and 220
