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HARVEY ELLIS Gleaner.
Oil on canvas, 1882. 370x460 mm; 14 3/4x18 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower center recto.
Provenance: Private collection, New York.
Born in Rochester, New York, Ellis (1852-1904) was an architect, painter and furniture designer, now best remembered for his work in the American Arts and Crafts movement. He worked in Rochester, New York; Utica, New York; St. Paul, Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota; St. Joseph, Missouri; St. Louis, Missouri and Syracuse, New York. Ellis's path and that of Gustav Stickley (1858-1942), the de facto leader of the American Arts and Crafts movement, eventually crossed, for Ellis, the president of the Rochester Arts and Crafts Society, was in charge of installing Stickley's famous, large 1903 Arts and Crafts exhibition in its Rochester venue, the Mechanics Institute. Shortly after that Ellis moved to Syracuse, New York, to join the expanding architecture department of Stickley's United Crafts organization, where he would become responsible for designing much of the "golden age" of Stickley's furniture.
