The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
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Joseph Cunningham; With a foreword by Bruce Barnes and an introduction by Sarah Fayen
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A highly anticipated look at the life and work of one of turn-of-the-century America’s most creative and influential furniture designers
Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) ranked among the most innovative furniture makers at the turn of the twentieth century. Praised by the international press and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, his beautiful works grew out of an interesting mix of styles that included Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and proto-modernism. This book presents the first major study of this important American designer and craftsman, drawing upon new photographs and fresh sources of information.
Alongside traditional historical approaches, the book presents detailed formal, structural, and stylistic analyses of Rohlfs’s well-known masterpieces from major museums, together with lesser-known objects in public and private collections. Topics include discovering the contribution of Rohlfs’s wife—mystery novelist Anna Katharine Green—to his designs; the far-ranging sources of his idiosyncratic motifs; his influence on Gustav Stickley’s designs; his commissioned interiors; his efforts at self-promotion and marketing; and his attempts to define a conceptual framework for his artistic endeavor. Handsomely designed and illustrated, the book also features a complete set of unpublished period illustrations of over seventy works.
Published in association with American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation
Exhibition Schedule:
Milwaukee Art Museum (June 6 – August 23, 2009)
Dallas Museum of Art (September 20, 2009 – January 3, 2010)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (January 30 – April 25, 2010)
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino (May 22 – September 6, 2010)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (October 19, 2010 – January 23, 2011)
Joseph Cunningham is the curator of American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation. His publications include Design Is Not Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread (2004). Bruce Barnes is founder and president of American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation. Sarah Fayen is assistant curator of the Chipstone Foundation and adjunct assistant curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Milwaukee Art Museum (June 6 – August 23, 2009)
Dallas Museum of Art (September 20, 2009 – January 3, 2010)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (January 30 – April 25, 2010)
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino (May 22 – September 6, 2010)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (October 19, 2010 – January 23, 2011)
Publication Date: November 25, 2008
Publishing Partner: Published in association with American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation
16 b/w + 321 color illus.
