About This Artwork
Chapin School of Cabinetmakers (Attributed to)
East Windsor and Hartford, Connecticut
Side Chair (one of a pair)1771/90
Mahogany with white and yellow pine
96.7 x 53.3 x 42.5 cm (38 1/2 x 21 x 16 3/4 in.)
Incised in Roman numerals, on the inside rear seat rails: "IIII" (of 1970.33) and "V" (of 1970.32); inscribed in pencil, once on each interior seat rail:"4" (of 1970.33); once on the front and side interior seat rails:"V" (of 1970.32); and on interior rear seat rail:"5" (of 1970.32)
Gift of the Antiquarian Society, 1970.32
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Israel Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection 16 (Dec. 1968), no. 1079 (ill.).
D. Hanks, “A Pair of Eighteenth Century Connecticut Side Chairs,” Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago 64, 4 (Sept. 1970), p. 7 (ill.).
R. Davidson, “Museum Accessions,” Antiques 98, 3 (Sept. 1970), p. 374 (ill.).
The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years (Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), cat. 138.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (American Association for State and Local History, 1981), no. 147.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), no. 172.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 102-04, no. 35.
Ownership History
Israel Sack, New York City, by 1970; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.