id: 160089
accession number: 1997.58
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.58
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Fire Screen, c. 1878–80. Firm of Herter Brothers (American). Gilded wood, painted and gilded wood panels, brocaded silk, embossed paper; overall: 131.8 x 76.2 x 58.3 cm (51 7/8 x 30 x 22 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1997.58
title: Fire Screen
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creation date: c. 1878–80
creation date earliest: 1878
creation date latest: 1880
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creditline: The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture: America
technique: gilded wood, painted and gilded wood panels, brocaded silk, embossed paper
department: Decorative Art and Design
collection: Furniture
type: Furniture and woodwork
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CREATORS
* Herter Brothers (American) - artist
Christian Herter (1840-83). Born in Stuttgart. He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris before joining his elder half-brother Gustave (1830-98) in New York in 1860. Gustave had been there since 1848 and had worked for Tiffany before founding his own furniture and decorations firm in 1857. In 1864 Christian returned to Paris to study under Pierre-Victor Gallard (1822-92) and in the early 1870s he was in England. Herter Brothers became a leading New York furniture and decorating business in the 1870s and 1880s, being one of the first to abandon the usual run of historical styles and produce pieces rather similar to those made contemporaneously in England, with a discreet use of oriental motifs. Marquetry furniture like that made for the railroad magnate Jay Gould in 1877-82 or the luxurious gilt and inlaid furniture made for the William H. Vanderbuilt House, NY, c. 1882 is typical of the more extravagant type of aesthetic movement in the US. He employed a large staff of craftsmen and designers, the latter including the architect Charles B. Atwood (1849-95). The firm survived until 1906.
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measurements: Overall: 131.8 x 76.2 x 58.3 cm (51 7/8 x 30 x 22 15/16 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'No existing exhibition history.', 'opening_date': None}
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Museum Acquires Major Chuck Close Painting, 19th-century Fire Screen, Rare Prints & Drawings,” June 9, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4136
Hawley, Henry H., "A Herter Brothers Firescreen", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 38 no. 03, March 1998
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1998-03/page/n7
Howe, Katherine S., "Herter Brother's Furniture," FMR (April 1998).
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 118-9
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 49-50, no. 49; listed: p. 117
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=50820863
Donley, Gregory M., "Forward Thinking", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 42 no. 10, December 2002
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2002-10/page/n3
Berliner, Nancy Zeng, and Edward S. Cooke. Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions. Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 2006.
page number: Mentioned: p. 49, fig. 10
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=75958409
Piña, Leslie A. Furniture in History, 3000 B.C.-2000 A.D. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2010.
page number: Mentioned: p. 23
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=268788668
Franklin, David, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with, New York, NY: Scala Publishers, 2012.
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 270-1
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=813973055
Bidwell, Frederick E. and Leslie Cade. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014.
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 142
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=857403600
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.58/1997.58_web.jpg
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