About This Artwork

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
American, 1867-1959
Made by Steelcase, Inc.
American, established 1912

Chair, 1936/39

painted steel tubing, maple armrests, original upholstery
85.7 x 60.3 x 54.6 cm (34 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.)
Gift of Johnson Wax Company, 1972.311

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. 54-56, cat. 14.

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. 86.