"Airflow" table fan | Yale University Art Gallery

Designed 1937

American Decorative Arts

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design

Medium: Chromium-plated steel, aluminum and cast iron
Dimensions: 13 1/2 × 11 1/4 × 8 in. (34.3 × 28.6 × 20.3 cm)
Credit Line: John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959
Accession Number: 2010.158.8
Geography: Manufactured in New Haven, Connecticut
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Tools and Equipment
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Provenance

John C. Waddell, New York, 2000–2010; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

"Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed March 1, 2012), 24, ill

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), 332–33, no. 231

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

fans (equipment)

Marks

"GILBERT," painted in red on rectangular tag mounted to guard; " Made by The A.C. Gilbert Co./ New Haven, Conn. U.S.A./110-120 Volts 60 Cycles only / Cat. A53 Watts 40/U.S. Pat. Nos. 1,938,380, 2,022,417, and Des. Pat. Nos. 104,259, 104,260, and 104,261/ Tested by / Code M1743-X," printed on paper label affixed to underside

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