Bridge table Decorator: Catherine A. Smith (American, 1888–1956)
Maker: Unknown

1920–40

American Decorative Arts

Not on view
Medium

Sweetgum (including medial brace), oilcloth with paper appliques; paperboard

Dimensions

25 7/8 × 28 5/8 × 28 5/8 in. (65.7 × 72.7 × 72.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Patricia E. Kane, Ph.D. 1987, and W. Scott Braznell, Art.A. 1967

Accession Number

1987.84.15

Geography

Made in Northeast, United States, Decorated in Block Island, Rhode Island

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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 records is ongoing.

Provenance
Catherine A. Smith (1888–1956), Block Island, R.I. [see note 1] Block Island Exchange, Block Island, R.I., by August 1987; sold to W. Scott Braznell (born 1938) and Patricia E. Kane (born 1944), New Haven, Conn., August 1987; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1987

Note 1: Catherine A. Smith, who decorated this table, almost certainly was its original owner. The daughter of Horace and Catherine Dogerty Dickens, she was descended from a family that had lived on Block Island since the eighteenth century. She married a Block Island fisherman, Louis E. Smith (information courtesy of Helen Cullinan).
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), 64–65, no. 33
  • Cynthia Hammett, "Table Tales: "Who was Cassie Smith?"," Block Island Times (September 11, 1993), 20, ill
  • David L. Barquist, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, and Gerald W. R. Ward, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 65, 257–59, no. 139, pl. 27, ill
  • "Acquisitions 1985–1987," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 2 (Spring 1988), 126
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

tables (support furniture)

Marks

"Cassie Smith" is written twice on the underside of the top, once in chalk and once in pencil.

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