GEORGE WASHINGTON MAHER. An Oak and Leather-Upholstered "Rockledge" Side Chair, circa 1911-1912. 40-3/4 x 18-1/2 x 20-1/4 i...

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GEORGE WASHINGTON MAHER
An Oak and Leather-Upholstered "Rockledge" Side Chair, circa 1911-1912
40-3/4 x 18-1/2 x 20-1/4 inches (103.5 x 47.0 x 51.4 cm)

PROVENANCE:
Ernest L. and Grace King residence, Homer, Minnesota.

In 1912, George Washington Maher designed Rockledge, a summer residence near Homer, Minnesota, for E.L. King. Sited just beneath a cliff along the Mississippi River, Rockledge is considered the finest residence of Maher's career and a perfect example of his motif-rhythm theory of architectural design.

Information and other examples from the Maher / Rockledge commission can be found in the following books and publications: W. Kaplan, ed., The Art that is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920, Boston, 1987, pp. 396-400; J. Kardon, The Ideal Home: The History of Twentieth Century American Craft, 1900-1920, New York, 1993, cover illus. and p. 205; Geo. W. Maher Quarterly, October-December 1992, pp. 1, 16, and 17; and Arts, December 1995, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, cover and back cover.

Examples of artworks from Rockledge are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Minnesota Historical Society, the Newark Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the St. Louis Art Museum.

This item was featured in the May 2009 issue of The Magazine Antiques.



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