Three-Panel Screen (for Glendon Allvine residence, Long Beach, New York) (Primary Title)
Donald Deskey, American, 1894 - 1989 (Designer)
Deskey-Vollmer, Inc., American (New York City), 1927 - 1931 (Maker)
In the 1920s Donald Deskey was part of a group of American designers influenced by European Art Deco. He received several important commissions for interiors, including the New York City landmark Radio City Music Hall. Besides public buildings, he was also involved in the interior decoration for numerous private houses. One of them, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Glendon Allvine was promoted in the press as “America’s First Modernistic Home.” Deskey’s iconic screen follows the color scheme of the Allvines’ dining room.
Back, on paper label: Modern Decorative Art / Deskey-Vollmer / New York
Gift of the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation
American Designers Gallery, New York, October, 1928 (Man's - Smoking - Room, 145 West 57th Street.
The Folding Image National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., March 4-Sept. 3, 1984; Yale University of Art Gallery, New Haven, Oct. 11, 1984-Jan. 6, 1985.
The Machine Age in America: The Americanization of Art 1920-1941, Brooklyn Museum, 16 October 1986 - 15 February 1987
American Art Deco, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 17 April - 26 July 1987; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Fla., 26 September - 1 November 1987; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, 28 November 1987 - 17 January 1988; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 7 February - 27 March 1988; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN, 24 April - 10 July 1988.
The Folding Image National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., March 4-Sept. 3, 1984; Yale University of Art Gallery, New Haven, Oct. 11, 1984-Jan. 6, 1985.
The Machine Age in America: The Americanization of Art 1920-1941, Brooklyn Museum, 16 October 1986 - 15 February 1987
American Art Deco, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 17 April - 26 July 1987; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Fla., 26 September - 1 November 1987; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, 28 November 1987 - 17 January 1988; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 7 February - 27 March 1988; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN, 24 April - 10 July 1988.
©artist or artist’s estate
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