“Airflow” table fan

Designed 1937

Chromium-plated steel, aluminum and cast iron

13 1/2 × 11 1/4 × 8 in. (34.3 × 28.6 × 20.3 cm)

John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959

2010.158.8

Geography:

Manufactured in New Haven, Connecticut

Status:

On view

Culture:

American

Period:

20th century

Classification:

Tools and Equipment

Provenance:

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

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), 332–33, no. 231.

“Acquisitions,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2011.pdf (accessed March 1, 2012).

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.