Canopy Bed with Alcove
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Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, February - December 1975.
Now I Lay Me Down to Eat: A Salute to the Unknown Art of Living, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY, November 18, 1980 - February 22, 1981.
Mrs. and Mrs. James P. Speer II;
Purchased from Mrs. and Mrs. James P. Speer II by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.
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