Legacy
Pabst retired in 1896, but continued making furniture for friends and family members into his eighties. In June 1910, he was honored by the University of Pennsylvania for 50 years of carving senior-class "Honor Men Awards". He died in Philadelphia the following month, on July 15.
The largest collection of Pabst furniture is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; including a 14-piece Renaissance Revival diningroom suite and a music cabinet made for Henry Charles Lea (c.1868), two pier mirrors made for Charles T. Parry (c.1870), a Modern Gothic cameo-carved bedroom suite made for Pabst's daughter Emma (c.1878), and a signed and dated Modern Gothic grandfather clock ("Daniel Pabst, Artist, 1884."). In addition to the above museums, he is represented in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY, and the Winterthur Museum in Wilmington, DE.
A great-grandson, Richard Pabst, is assembling a complete list of his known and attributed works. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is preparing a comprehensive exhibition of his furniture.
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