Crafting Modernism: Masters of the American Studio Design Movement from the Pinnacle Art Collection

Crafting Modernism: Masters of the American Studio Design Movement from the Pinnacle Art Collection

Wharton Esherick

Library Ladder

Auction Closed

June 10, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Wharton Esherick

Library Ladder


circa 1970

walnut

50½ x 19 x 17½ in. (128.3 x 48.3 x 44.4 cm)

Treadway Toomey Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 22, 2011, lot 852
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Dona Z. Meilach, Contemporary Art with Wood: Creative Techniques and Appreciation, New York, 1968, p. 181
Lee Nordness, Objects: USA, New York, 1970, p. 254
The Wharton Esherick Museum Studio and Collection, 
Paoli, PA, 1984, pp. 14 (for a period photograph of the model) and 25, fig. 98
Michael A. Stone, Contemporary American Woodworkers, Salt Lake City, 1986, p. 11
Wharton Esherick 1887-1970: American Woodworker, exh. cat., Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, 1996, p. 20
Leslie Williamson, Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-Century Designers, New York, 2010, p. 25
Mansfield Bascom, Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind, New York, 2010, pp. 248 and 265
(C) 2025 Sotheby's
All alcoholic beverage sales in New York are made solely by Sotheby's Wine (NEW L1046028)