Floor Lamp | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1927–35

Medium: Chromium-plated brass, enameled steel, and Bakelite
Dimensions: 52 × 16 × 21 in. (132.1 × 40.6 × 53.3 cm)
height fully extended: 64 in. (162.6 cm)
Credit Line: John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959
Accession Number: 2012.124.8
Geography: Manufactured in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Lighting Devices
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Provenance

Purchased by John C. Waddell, New York, 2000

Bibliography

John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 48–49, no. 26.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

floor lamps

"NESSEN STUDIO, N.Y.," cast into underside of base

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