About This Artwork
Carving attributed to Samuel McIntire
American, 1757-1811
Side Chair (one of a pair)1795/1811
Mahogany, ash and birch; upholstered seat
97.2 x 54 x 47 cm (38 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Edith Almy Adams Fund, 1938.1322
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, American Interior Design: The Traditions and Development of Domestic Design from Colonial Times to the Present, 1947, cat. 82.
Art Institute of Chicago, Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago, The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 144.
Publication History
Mildred Davison, “Important Gifts from the Antiquarians,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 33, 5 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1939), p. 100 (ill.).
Meyric R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago,” 74, 1 Antiques (July 1958), pp. 49–56 (ill.).
Barbara Wriston, “American Furniture in the Collection,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57 (Spring 1963), p. 32 (ill.)
Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1976), p. 21, no. 24.
Tom Armstrong, “The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 134, 4 (Oct. 1988), pp. 822–35.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), p. 14 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 3rd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1997), ill.
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. 110-111, no. 40.
Ownership History
By descent to William C. West; estate of Abbie C. West, Boston, 1932; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1938.