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Greta Magnusson Grossman (American (born in Sweden), 1906–1999)
Glenn of California (American, active 1948 – 1992)
1952
Object PlaceArcadia, California
Medium/TechniqueWalnut, lacquered wood, steel piano wire
DimensionsOverall: 152.4 × 165.1 × 66 cm (60 × 65 × 26 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Frank B. Bemis Fund, Harriet Otis Cruft Fund, Otis Norcross Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, Helen B. Sweeney Fund, Frank M. and Mary T.B. Ferrin Fund, Frederick Brown Fund, John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund, H. E. Bolles Fund, Mary L. Smith Fund, Arthur Mason Knapp Fund, and Joyce Arnold Rusoff Fund
Accession number2020.215
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsFurniture
Collections
Provenance2002, sold, possibly by Lawrence Converso, Converso Gallery, Chicago and Los Angeles, at the Palm Springs Modernism Fair to R & Company, New York; 2020, sold by R & Company to the MFA. (Accession date: June 17, 2020)
Design for a Screen
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