Credit Line:Purchase, Theodore R. Gamble Jr. Gift, in honor of his mother, Mrs. Theodore Robert Gamble, 1980
Object Number:1980.333a–i
Marking: Stamped (back, upper right): The Company of Master Craftsmen [encircling eagle logo] / J1155K / D15231
(sale, Sotheby's, New York, July 24, 1980, no. 552, sold to MMA)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Art Deco and Modernism: Style Versus Idea," June 25, 1991–February 16, 1992, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," May 16, 2000–January 7, extended to February 4, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 41).
Newport Beach, Calif. Orange County Museum of Art. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," May 25–August 19, 2001, unnumbered cat.
Flint, Mich. Flint Institute of Arts. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," September 14–December 16, 2001, unnumbered cat.
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," January 11–April 7, 2002, unnumbered cat.
Charlotte. Mint Museum of Craft and Design. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," May 3–July 28, 2002, unnumbered cat.
Tulsa. Philbrook Museum of Art. "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age," August 23–November 17, 2002, unnumbered cat.
New York. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s," April 7–August 20, 2017, no. 105.
Cleveland Museum of Art. "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s," September 30, 2017–January 14, 2018, no. 105.
Linda Hales. "From Mainstream to Streamlined America." Washington Post (May 20, 2000), p. C2.
Stephen Harrison inThe Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Exh. cat., Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. Cleveland, 2017, pp. 116–17, 336, no. 105, fig. 155 (color).
Paul T. Frankl (American, Vienna 1886–1958 Los Angeles, California)
ca. 1927
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