Candlestick

Robert R. Jarvie

ca. 1903 · Bronze · The American Wing

Robert R. Jarvie, whose early advertisements label him "the Candlestick Maker," created some of the most sophisticated metal candlesticks of the Arts and Crafts period, naming each design with a letter of the Greek alphabet. His light, organic forms in brass, copper, bronze, and silver were favorites of contemporaries such as Frank Lloyd Wright, who used a pair of Delta candlesticks in the Avery Coonley and Isabel Roberts homes.

Artist

Robert R. Jarvie

Date

ca. 1903

Medium

Bronze

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David Lubart Gift, in memory of Katherine J. Lubart, 1944–1975, 1981