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Cabinet with Tulip Poplar Panels

Designerdesigned by Edna Walker (American)

Maker Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (American)

Collections

ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS

Date1904

Mediumpolychromed poplar with brass hardware

Dimensions72 1/2 x 48 x 21 in. (184.2 x 121.9 x 53.3 cm.)

Description

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation with support from Mark and Jill Willcox

Status

On view

Label TextMany of the basic forms of furniture created at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony appear to have been derived from British prototypes. These pieces, such as the Tulip Poplar Cabinet, tend to be boxy and rectilinear, with simple lines forming frames for carvings or paintings in the tradition of William Morris and his followers.

In most cases, it is not clear who designed and built the furniture produced at Byrdcliffe, for the pieces tend to be identified by the artists who created their decorative motifs. In the case of this cabinet, Edna Walker designed the carved panels that depict the leaves and magnolia-like flowers of the Liriodendron tulipifera-also known as the yellow poplar or tulip poplar that grows throughout the eastern United States.

Object number2004.17.1