About This Artwork

Artist unknown
New York

Chest of Drawers, 1878/84

Bird's-eye maple, tulip poplar, and cherry
152.4 x 111.8 x 55.9 cm (60 x 44 x 22 in.)
Stamped on brass locks: "ROBINSON BOSTON"
Restricted gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson Fund, 1986.186

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, A Decade of Decorative Arts, Nov. 12–Jan. 4, 1987, cat. 49.

Publication History

Marvin D. Schwartz, “New Wing Presents Design, Colonial Period to Present,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (Dec. 30, 1988), pp. 38–39 (ill.).

Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, no. 107.

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 241-243, no. 116.

Ownership History

Henry G. Marquand, 1878; by descent to Elizabeth Marquand Godwin, 1902; bu descent to Elizabeth Love Godwin, 1951; Friends for Long Island’s Heritage, from 1975; Sotheby Parke–Bernet Galleries, 1984; Peter Hill Antiques, 1984; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.