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Article: Anna Katharine Green and Charles Rohlfs: artistic collaborators.
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Charles and Ray Eames, Russel and Mary Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Mac-donald--the artistic collaboration of such husband and wife teams is now understood as an important aspect of twentieth-century design. In some of these joint enterprises, the wives functioned as administrators or business women; in others the collaborative endeavor was considerably more artistic. For the furniture designer Charles Rohlfs (Fig. 3) and his wife, Anna Katharine Green (Fig. 1), the intermeshing of theater and literature, design and the home, and art and life was the defining characteristic of their marriage.
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