2009.31 Charles Rohlfs, Corner chair
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This corner chair was originally part of an intricately pierced, boxlike table and four-chair set created by American Arts and Crafts designer Charles Rohlfs in 1898 or 1899.
David T. Owsley
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
One of the most interesting aspects of the Dallas Museum of Art's collecting in the last decade has been the involvement with the Museum of David T. Owsley. Owsley's parents, Colonel Alvin and Lucy Ball Owsley, were well-known Dallasites.
DMA Acquires Two Picassos
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The following essay is from the Dallas Museum of Art Bulletin, Summer 1988.
American and European Design - 1920 to 1960
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the 1920s, the influence of European modernism—the decorative styling of French art deco, or art moderne, and the functional purity of Germany’s Bauhaus school—began to transform American design.
Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Born in Decatur, Indiana in 1893, Walter Dorwin Teague moved to New York City in 1903. There, he studied at the Art Students’ League before opening a graphic design studio in 1912.
1996.46 Joseph Sinel, Height and weight meter (model S)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Although industry had long had in-house designers and master craftsmen to design products, the 1920s saw the advent of professional industrial designers who worked as consultants to manufacturers to design specific products.
Art from Industry: The Evolution of Craftsman Furniture
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Alongside the highly ornamental, largely conservative chairs which had sustained the firm in the waning years of the 19th century, in July of 1900 the Gustave Stickley Company introduced a line of “New Furniture” designs at the Grand Rapids Furniture Exposition. At the time, few would have expected this collection of startlingly different “furniture novelties” to result in a wholesale shift in the company’s production within the course of the following year.
Gustav Stickley in the 1890s
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
It has not been possible to learn how much the Panic of 1893 affected the Stickley & Simonds Company, the chair manufacturing enterprise that Stickley and Elgin Simonds had opened in 1888, though the firm’s decision to shut its New York City sales office in 1895 may have been a cost-cutting move.
The Furniture Industry in the 1890s (United States)
GENERAL DESRIPTION
Hard times came to the American furniture industry early in the 1890s. A financial crisis—the Panic of 1893—hit the United States economy that year and led to severe recession. From 1894 through 1898 unemployment remained at a very high level—above 10 percent.