Lot 457: GEORGE GRANT ELMSLIE AND WILLIAM GRAY PURCELL

PROPERTY FROM A MINNESOTA FAMILY

PAIR OF SIDELIGHT WINDOWS FROM THE EDWARD W. DECKER HOUSE, LAKE MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA

PAIR OF SIDELIGHT WINDOWS FROM THE EDWARD W. DECKER HOUSE, LAKE MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA

measurements note
51 1/4 x 20 in. (130.2 x 50.8 cm) each, framed

ca. 1914

opalescent, iridized and selectively textured clear leaded glass in the original painted wood frames

PROVENANCE

Acquired by Alice Jordan Rosekrans, Wayzata, MN, following the demolition of the Decker House, ca. 1943

EXHIBITED

Prairie School Architecture in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin, Minnesota Museum of Art at Landmark Center, Saint Paul, February 14-April 10, 1982
Minnesota 1900: Art and Life on the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1915, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 19-September 4, 1994

LITERATURE

Michael Conforti, ed., Minnesota 1900: Art and Life on the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1915, Newark, 1994, pp. 282-283, no. 29 (for the windows included in the exhibition checklist)