Wharton Esherick Papers

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two sets of chairs by Wharton Esherick (via Henry Varnum poor papers)

Wharton Esherick and Henry Varnum Poor met through the E. Weyhe Book Store which also served as a gallery for up-and-coming progressive artists.  The bookstore had commissioned Poor to make decorative tiles for its storefront in 1923; Esherick began exhibiting there — paintings, woodcuts, a chess set — by 1925.

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