Display case for the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.By 1890, numerous museums had been established across the country, an indication of the nation’s cultural coming of age. In 1888, Schastey fulfilled an order from the Metropolitan Museum for forty display cases, though none are known to survive. After Schastey opened a second manufactory, in Springfield, Massachusetts, the collector George Walter Vincent Smith commissioned a number of cases in the Colonial Revival style for his new museum.
Artwork Details
- Title: Display case for the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
- Maker: George A. Schastey & Co. (American, New York, 1873–1897)
- Maker: George A. Schastey (American (born Germany), Merseburg 1839–1894 at sea)
- Date: 1891
- Geography: Made in New York, New York, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Mahogany, glass, and brass
- Dimensions: 69 × 50 × 32 in. (175.3 × 127 × 81.3 cm)
(Internal dimensions: 37 x 43 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.) - Credit Line: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, George Walter Vincent Smith Collection
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing