By Stanford White
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stanford White (1853-1906)
Sketches of Two Sofas and Chair
Graphite on paper, c. 1890
Unsigned
Provenance: Davis Galleries, 1963, New York
Davis Galleries organized the important 1963 exhibition Stanford White: Works on Paper, one of the earliest concentrated presentations of White’s drawings. The firm’s own historical exhibition list confirms that show. Davis and Langdale exhibition history.
Reviewed in TIME Magazine, 1963
Condition: Mounted to support sheet, slight staining
Image size: 5 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches
Frame size: : 10 3/4 x 14 inches
Alan Wanzenberg is a distinguished New York architect and interior designer whose work emphasizes architectural proportion, craftsmanship, historic furniture and the integration of art with interiors. His ownership is particularly appropriate for a Stanford White furniture study and gives the sheet a stronger design-history provenance than an anonymous private collection would provide.
“Possibly exhibited, Davis Galleries, New York, Stanford White: Works on Paper, 1963; not confirmed in the exhibition checklist.”
Stanford White was born in New York City in 1853. After training in the office of Henry Hobson Richardson...
Category
1890s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors