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Early 20th Century Design
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- Sale 1103
Live
| Cincinnati
Nov 17 | 10:00 AM EST
Live
| Cincinnati
Sale 1103
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$800 – $1,200
Provenance:
This panel was once installed in the Nichols Middle School in Evanston, Illinois. An article in the Chicago Sunday Tribune from May 21, 1944 notes that two tile installations, one by William Morris (English, 1834-1896) and the other by Walter Crane (English, 1845-1925), were installed in the school in 1944. Both installations were reportedly made for the Exposition Universelle of 1889 in Paris, then exhibited in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and stored for fifty years in a warehouse in Chicago before being acquired for the school's industrial arts room by Frederick W. Nichols, a superintendent for the Evanston schools. The tiles were later deinstalled. The tile on offer here, also from the school, is similar to English Arts and Crafts tiles of the period.
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Ms. Howe joined the firm in 2012 working as a specialist in the American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts department as well as the Modern and Contemporary Art and Design department.
Previously, Ms. Howe served as Associate Curator of Decorative Arts at the Cincinnati Art Museum, where she curated exhibitions focusing on American and European furniture, silver, glass and ceramics. Additionally, she was an instructor of Art History at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, an independent consultant to museums and a lecturer on decorative arts. Ms. Howe’s research and publications have focused on late 19th- and early 20th-century decorative arts and design, in particular, on Cincinnati Arts and Crafts metalwork and furniture. Ms. Howe served as editor and contributing author of the book Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors. She received a BA from the University of Cincinnati and an MA in Art History from the University of Minnesota.
