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American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
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- Sale 1130
Live
| Cincinnati
Mar 30 | 10:00 AM EDT
Live
| Cincinnati
Sale 1130
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$2,000 – $3,000
Harry Woolrich was a notorious gambler from Montana who was also heavily entrenched in the gaming scene at the Monte Carlo Dance Hall and Saloon, a premier entertainment establishment in Dawson City during the height of the Alaska Gold Rush. The Jefferson Valley Zephyr reports on 7 January 1898 that Woolrich and two associates were "arrested in Butte for gambling. They conducted a skin game and beat a miner named Hudnott." Though a search of the Montana State Prison index failed to turn up results for Woolrich, he likely entered the Deer Lodge Prison shortly after this incident.
Provenance:
By descent within the Woolrich family;
purchased by a private collector, 2002;
sold to the present owner.
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Leah Vogelpohl
AVP, Specialist, American Furniture, Folk, and Decorative Arts
Ms. Vogelpohl joined the firm in 2013 as a cataloger in the American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts department. She became a department specialist in 2017, focusing on American decorative arts and silver. She received a BA from the College of Charleston and an MLITT in Art History from the University of Glasgow.
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.
