Artist: Frank Jeck
Museum: Glencairn Museum (Bryn Athyn, United States)
Technique: Wood
“Sometime during the summer of 1922, while pregnant with her sixth child, Mildred Pitcairn wrote the following note to her children who were at the shore: ‘I am delighted with the dear little wooden bed Daddy is having made for me. The carpenters have cut and fitted the big pieces and Mr. Jeck is doing the carving. It takes a long time because it is made of cherry wood and that is very hard.’ Lachlan Pitcairn was born on September 1, but it was a few months before the crib was ready. . .The family was living at Cairnwood, the 1895 Carrère & Hastings country house beside Glencairn, when the crib was first used (all of Mildred’s children were born before Glencairn was completed). Lachlan Pitcairn donated the crib to Glencairn Museum in 1992, where it is now exhibited in the master bedroom.” (Kirsten and Ed Gyllenhaal, “A Woodcarver’s Legacy: The Work of Frank Jeck (Part One),” _Glencairn Museum News_, Number 8, 2019; see External Link)Sources:- Kirsten and Ed Gyllenhaal, “A Woodcarver’s Legacy: The Work of Frank Jeck (Part One),” _Glencairn Museum News_, Number 8, 2019.- Wendy Kaplan, _”The Art That Is Life”: The Art & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920_, 1998, 315.- Janet Kardon (ed.), _The Ideal Home 1900-1920: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft_, 1993, 66-67.
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