“Tirol” refers to the furniture forms, which were based on North Italian Gothic designs. Multiple working drawings accompany the table.

Exhibited: “Life by Design,” Delaware Art Museum, 1984, catalogue number 17, illustration on page 25.

Dawson Dawson-Watson was born in England and came to the United States in 1893 to direct the Hartford Art Society. While working in Canada he met artist Birge Harrison, who introduced him to the Whiteheads. He then worked and taught at Byrdcliffe during its first season. He won a medal at the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition and settled in San Antonio, Texas. There he became one of the most important Texas impressionist landscape painters. Dawson-Watson was at Byrdcliffe for just one season. The furniture he designed while there is distinctive within Byrdcliffe production, but it is also outstanding within American Arts and Crafts production in general.