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Charles Sumner Greene
Bookcase from the Cordelia A. Culbertson House, Pasadenacirca 1911

Not on view
Dark espresso-brown wood cabinet in two sections: upper glass-fronted display case with etched floral motifs and bamboo-style corner inlay; lower section with three drawers and three solid doors
Black and white photograph of etched or frosted glass panel, depicting a climbing floral stem with a large open bloom, buds, broad leaves, and curling tendrils, set against a dark background with a vertical glazing bar at right.
Black and white photograph of a dark-stained wooden cabinet corner, showing a carved vertical panel with stylized floral or foliate motifs on narrow parallel stiles, with molded framing and a glazed door panel at right.
Designer
Charles Sumner Greene
United States, California, 1868-1957
Designer
Henry Mather Greene
Title
Bookcase from the Cordelia A. Culbertson House, Pasadena
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1911
Medium
Mahogany, ebony, and glass
Dimensions
82 × 54 × 24 in. (208.28 × 137.16 × 60.96 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Linda and James Ries in memory of Dorothy and Harold Shrier
Accession Number
AC1997.105.1
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.