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Wharton Esherick was born on July 15, 1887, in Philadelphia. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (later the University of the Arts); and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, however he left in 1910 and did not graduate.
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.
Chapter 4 (pages 104–136) of this Master's thesis is a comparative study of the wood detailing in Kahn's Fisher, Esherick and Korman Houses. It includes photos and floor plans. Models of the Esherick House; Romero, Melissa (20 February 2019). " 'We pinch ourselves that we get to live here' Life inside Louis Kahn's Esherick House". Curbed ...
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It served as Wharton Esherick's painting studio for four years during the 1920s and hosted meetings of the local 4H Club and other groups during the 1940s. [2] The Wharton Esherick Museum has managed the property since 2019. [3] [7] The schoolhouse was reportedly visited by Abraham Lincoln in the 1860s. [8]
Wharton's first published novella was The Touchstone, set in old New York, like many of her stories. It follows Stephen Glennard, who is suddenly impoverished and can't marry his beautiful ...
The museum collection contains more than 80,000 artifacts, with strengths in southeastern Pennsylvania furniture, textiles, and decorative arts. The library collection contains over 500,000 manuscripts, 80,000 photographs, and 20,000 volumes. Since the early 1980s, the CCHC has partnered with the county government to administer the Chester ...