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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 ...
By 1926, having moved into sculpture and furniture making, he built himself a new workspace (now known as the Wharton Esherick Studio) that was a short walk uphill from the family home. In the late 1920s and through the 30s, amidst his and Letty's protracted marital separation, Wharton gradually made the Studio his full-time residence.
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 ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "American furniture makers" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. ... Wharton Esherick ...
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.
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 ...
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