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'Music Stand' by Wharton Esherick, cherrywood, 1962, Metropolitan Museum of Art Fireplace, andirons, and doorway by Esherick, 1935–1938, Philadelphia Museum of Art Esherick's woodblock print for Song of the Broad-Axe by Walt Whitman, 1924. Wharton Esherick (July 15, 1887 – May 6, 1970) was an American artist and designer. An artistic ...
The Wharton Esherick Studio was the studio and home of Wharton Esherick (1887-1970), an artistic polymath who is best known for his modernist sculpture and sculptural wood furniture. Built into the south slope of Valley Forge Mountain in Malvern, Pennsylvania , the Studio was a forty year project for Esherick, who constructed, expanded, and ...
The Wharton Esherick Museum is the home and workshop of Wharton Esherick (1887–1970), an American artist and designer. Though Esherick worked in a wide range of art media, he is best known for his wood furniture, which married modernist sculptural form with functional craft.
The Diamond Rock Schoolhouse is a historic octagonal one-room school located in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Constructed in 1818, the schoolhouse closed in 1864 and later served as a studio for Wharton Esherick. A local newspapers in 1940 described the schoolhouse as "one of the few remaining octagonal school buildings in ...
The mid 20th-century's revived interest in "craft" is represented by the work of Tage Frid, Wharton Esherick, John Prip, and Peter Voulkos. The RISD Museum is a leading collector of American contemporary craft and studio furniture, and many of the artists represented in the collection have ties to the school as alumni, faculty, or both.
THE KITCHEN WAS DESIGNED BY MARGARET ESHERICK'S UNCLE WHARTON ESCHERICK WHO WAS A NATIONAL KNOWN CRAFTSMAN. ... You are free: to share – to copy ... Photos 1.0.1 ...
Wharton's eighth novel won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, making her the first woman to win the prestigious award. Set in the Gilded Age, The Age of Innocence is about New York society and the ...
The entire collection houses over 70,000 objects, thousands of which are on view at any given time. The museum guide has been designed to highlight seven major sections. In the following list, the artist's name is followed by the location of one of their works and its page number in the guide.