Handbag watch | Yale University Art Gallery

Designed 1933; manufactured 1933–39

Medium: Bakelite and metal
Dimensions: Diam. (watch): 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Stewart G. Rosenblum, J.D. 1974, M.A. 1974, M.Phil. 1976, Ph.D. 2010, in memory of his aunt Helen D. Gordon
Accession Number: 2002.128.10a-b
Geography: Designed in New York, New York, Manufactured in Chicago, Illinois, Manufactured in Peru, Illinois
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Timepieces
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

Helen D. Gordon, Scarsdale, N.Y., by 1939–96; inherited by her nephew Stewart G. Rosenblum, New York, 1996–2002

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), 264–65, no. 179

"Acquisitions 2002," in "The Original Work of Art: What It Has to Teach," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2003), 136, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

watches

"WESTCLOX," on face

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