Lamp with stained glass shade featuring dragonflies and shades of green, purple, brown.

Lamp with Hanging Head Dragonfly Shade and Mosaic and Turtleback Base

Museum collection

Museum work by Clara Driscoll

Art Institute of Chicago

Thread 04623

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Art Institute of Chicago

The original is held by the Art Institute of Chicago and is not for sale. This piece is shown for reference — no edition of it is offered.

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Curator’s note

Clara Driscoll (By 1906) from Corona. Held in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and released into the public domain, offered here as a museum-quality edition within the fame thread.

Details

Artist: Design attributed to Clara Pierce Wolcott Driscoll (American, 1861–1944)
Date: By 1906
Medium: Favrile glass and bronze
Dimensions: 86.4 × 57.2 cm · 34.0 × 22.5 in
Origin: Corona
Collection: Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowments, Robert Allerton Purchase Fund, Goodman Endowment for the Collection of the Friends of American Art, Pauline S. Armstrong Endowment, Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson; purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society in memory of Helen Richman Gilbert and Lena Turnbull Gilbert, Sandra van den Broek, Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Buchbinder, Quinn E. Delaney, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley M. Dixon, Jamee J. and Marshall Field, Celia and David Hilliard, Elizabeth Souder Louis, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance, and Mr. and Mrs. Morris S. Weeden

Placing a fame & recognition work

Some works are made to be seen from across a room. High contrast, a single decisive gesture, a colour that refuses to sit back. These belong where people arrive and gather — a hallway that opens into a living room, a landing at the top of a staircase, the wall a camera finds first.

Direction: South — the quarter of visibility
Rooms: Living rooms · Hallways · Staircases · Galleries

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Provenance & rights

Source collection: Art Institute of Chicago. Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowments, Robert Allerton Purchase Fund, Goodman Endowment for the Collection of the Friends of American Art, Pauline S. Armstrong Endowment, Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson; purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society in memory of Helen Richman Gilbert and Lena Turnbull Gilbert, Sandra van den Broek, Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Buchbinder, Quinn E. Delaney, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley M. Dixon, Jamee J. and Marshall Field, Celia and David Hilliard, Elizabeth Souder Louis, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance, and Mr. and Mrs. Morris S. Weeden. Public domain (CC0). Shown here for reference, with full attribution to the artist and holding institution. No edition of this work is offered.