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Madeline Yale Wynne was a prominent and important
force in the American Arts and Crafts movement of the
late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She was
skilled in metalwork, enameling, painting, embroidery,
woodwork, basketry, writing, and music and went on to
found craft societies in Massachusetts and Chicago.
Chest, 1899, oak, iron, paint
She made this chest during her brief period as a furniture
maker. Her unique style mixes Celtic-inspired carving with
X-shaped panels borrowed from traditional New England
colonial chests. The Virgin Mary is depicted in the top of the
chest and three white lilies, the symbol of the Virgin, are
painted on the underside of the lid
The Speed Art Museum
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