American Decorative Arts
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Public domain
Designer: Russel Wright, American, 1904–1976
Maker Cast by: Eugene Joseph Rowan, American, 1875–1967

Pair of “Libbiloo” Bookends

ca. 1929

Chromium-plated white metal

Each: 5 3/8 x 2 15/16 x 6 1/4 in. (13.7 x 7.5 x 15.9 cm)
Gift of J. Marshall and Thomas M. Osborn in memory of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Osborn
1977.40.14a-b
Culture: 
American
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Tools and Equipment
Geography: 
Made in New York, New York
Status: 
On view
Provenance: 

Possibly given as a wedding present to Marie-Louise Montgomery Osborn and James Marshall Osborn, Bronxville, N.Y., ca. 1929–76; inherited by their sons, J. Marshall Osborn, Madison, Wis., and Thomas M. Osborn, Los Angeles, 1976–77

Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions 1977,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 37, no. 1 (Fall 1978): 72, ill.

Karen Davies, At Home in Manhattan Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983), 59, no. 42, 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), 231, no. 154.

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