Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2010

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Pair of four-panel screens

designed about 1946
Designed by Charles Eames
Designed by Ray Eames
Manufactured by Herman Miller Furniture Company
Each panel: 172.7 x 101.6 cm (68 x 40 in.)
Molded plywood, walnut veneer, webbing

Classification: Furniture

Object Place: Zeeland, Michigan

Accession number: 2010.27.1-2

Provenance/Ownership History: History of Ownership: Early history unknown; at an unknown date, owned by Howard Gilman, New York, New York; given by Gilman to Charlie Millhouse; owned by Natalie Moody; by January 2010, Mark McDonald, 330 Gallery, Hudson, NY; 2010, purchased from McDonald by the MFA. (Accession Date: February 24, 2010)

Museum purchase with funds donated by The Karolik Society, Mr. James G. Hinkle, Jr. and Mr. Roy Hammer, Grace and Floyd Lee Bell Fund, J. Parker Prindle, and Mrs. Elizabeth L. Clark