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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Elmslie George Creator Nationality: American (born Scotland), Minnesota Creator Role: Designer Creator Dates/Places: 1871 - 1952 Gender: M Creator Name-CRT: George Grant Elmslie Creator Name: Purcell William Creator Nationality: American, Minnesota Creator Dates/Places: 1880 - 1965 Creator Name-CRT: William Gray Purcell Title: Side chair View: 3/4 view Creation Start Date: 1904 Creation End Date: 1924 Creation Date: c. 1914 Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects Classification Term: Furniture Materials and Techniques: Pine, oak, birch, horsehair upholstery Dimensions: H.50 X W.19-1/4 x D.20 in. AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA ID Number: 93.89.1 Credit Line: Gift of Susan Decker Barrows Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.cfm Provenance: Edward W. and Susie M. Spaulding Decker Susan Decker Barrows Context: In 1913 Purcell and Elmslie built a large summer residence for Edward W. Decker, a Minneapolis banker, on a wooded lot on Lake Minnetonka. The dining room furniture is unlike any other by Purcell and Elmslie. It is constructed of pine, a wood appropriate for a summer house, with chair seats upholstered in hard-wearing horsehair, once a deep blue. The chair backs have no decorative design, letting the form tell the story. The molding on the side-rail terminals and on the feet matched that of the built-in buffets. Purcell later noted that, "Mr. Decker spent all the money that was necessary to make our architectural thesis complete in all its detail...really an integral work in every department." Exhibition History: Prairie School Architecture in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, 1982 Minnesota 1900: Art and Life on the Mississippi, 1890-1915, The Minneapolis Instittute of Arts, 1994 Link to Multimedia: http://www.artsmia.org/mia/qtvr/00/mia_3 Related Multimedia Description: Unified Vision: In the late 19th century, Louis Sullivan conceived the idea of an authentic American architecture suited to the needs of people living in the modern age.Employing his principles of unified design, Sullivan's followers, including Frank Lloyd Wright, William Gray Purcell, and George Grant Elmslie, developed what is now known as the Prairie School.Unified Vision explores these modern concepts through the exemplary Prairie School collection at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Link to Multimedia: http://www.artsmia.org/unified_vision/ AMICA ID: MIA_.93.89.1 AMICA Library Year: 2003 Media Metadata Rights: AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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