About This Artwork

Designed by Kem Weber
American, born Germany, 1889-1963
Made by Grand Rapids Chair Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Armchair, 1928/29

Painted wood and original leather upholstery
102.9 x 54.6 x 50.7 cm (40 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 20 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. Manfred Steinfeld Fund, 1985.6

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), pp. 43-45, cat. 11.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 60.