2008.51 Gustav Stickley, Willow armchair | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The woven willow strands of this chair are rubbed with pigment to provide a color intended to enliven interior decorating schemes. While considered rustic due to the raw material, Stickley advocated the use of light willow furniture not only for porches but for nearly every room of the home, as a companion to his heavier oak furnishings. While the influence of German and Austrian progressive design upon Stickley’s oak furniture was generally subtle, most of his modern willow furniture designs, including this chair, readily point to these sources. Stickley’s firm began producing willow furniture in 1904, but this uncataloged example was not published until 1913 when it was described as recent work “intended for some cozy fireside.”

Excerpt from

Kevin Tucker, Label text (2008.51), North Gallery, 2011.

NOTES

Added web resource - JBA 10/12/2017

Updated TMS - Added Text entry and Geo Xrefs - place of birth, death, business location, place of origin and manufactured in, and published references - JBA 10/12/12017

I updated Provenance

Catalogue essays

Armchair

A Vogue for Rustic

Artist/designers

Stickley, Gustav (American, 1858-1942)

Cultures

Geography

Process/materials

Historical periods

Individuals

Subject terms

Arts and Craft s

RELATED OBJECTS

PROVENANCE

Until 2008: Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jersey [1]

From 2008: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from the above at auction, "Craftsman Auction, September 27 and 28, 2008 [1]

[1] See Rago Arts and Auction invoice (dated September 30, 2008, copy in Collections Records Object File) and Dallas Museum of Art purchase order (dated October 17, 2008, copy in Collections Records Object File).

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This willow armchair was featured in the article "Comfort and Picturesqueness of Willow Furniture: Illustrated by Some New Craftsman Models," published on pages 95-98 of the October 1913 issue of The Craftsman. Read the article on the University of Wisconsin's Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture.

WEB RESOURCES

The Stickley Museum~Learn more about the origins of Stickley furniture and designs.

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General Description

The woven willow strands of this chair are rubbed with pigment to provide a color intended to enliven interior decorating schemes. While considered rustic due to the raw material, Stickley advocated the use of light willow furniture not only for porches but for nearly every room of the home, as a companion to his heavier oak furnishings. While the influence of German and Austrian progressive design upon Stickley’s oak furniture was generally subtle, most of his modern willow furniture designs, including this chair, readily point to these sources. Stickley’s firm began producing willow furniture in 1904, but this uncataloged example was not published until 1913 when it was described as recent work “intended for some cozy fireside.”