Blanket Chest
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Caption
Max Kuehne American, born Germany, 1880–1968. Blanket Chest, ca. 1921. Pine, gesso, lacquer, 21 1/4 x 44 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (54 x 113 x 49.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 67.271.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 67.271.1_front_PS9.jpg)
Maker
Title
Blanket Chest
Date
ca. 1921
Geography
Place manufactured: New York, New York, United States
Medium
Pine, gesso, lacquer
Classification
Dimensions
21 1/4 x 44 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (54 x 113 x 49.5 cm)
Signatures
no signature
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
On underside of lid, under couch: "Max Kuehne 1921"
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
67.271.1
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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This is a blanket chest designed by Max Kuehne around 1921. It's made from pine and decorated with gesso and lacquer. Kuehne studied painting with William Merritt Chase, and in the early 1920s he was a member of the Rockport artists colony in Massachusetts. Though primarily known for painting, Kuehne also did sculpture, decorated objects like this chest, and carved his own frames!
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