About This Artwork

George Grant Elmslie
American, born Scotland, 1871-1952

Side Chair, 1910

Oak, laminated wood, leather, jute webbing, and horsechair (original upholstery)
127.3 x 48.9 x 41.2 cm (50 1/8 x 19 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.)
Mrs. William P. Boggess II Fund, 1973.342

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Princeton, New Jersey, The Art Museum, The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876–1916, Oct. 21–Dec. 17, 1972, cat. 76; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 24–Apr. 22, 1973, Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, June 1–Sept. 10, 1973.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1976, cat. 166.

Art Institute of Chicago, Two Hundred Years of American Architectural Drawings, Apr. 13–June 4, 1978.

Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Furniture: Art, Craft, and Industry, 1833-1983, Dec. 5, 1983–Aug. 31, 1984, no cat.; traveled to Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 12, 1984–Apr. 7, 1985, New York, Cooper Hewitt Museum, May 21–Aug. 25, 1985.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Minnesota 1900," June 18–Sept. 4, 1994.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago," November 7, 2009-January 31, 2010, cat. 45.

Publication History

“Mission Accomplished,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 14, 1980, sect. 13.

Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (American Association for State and Local History, 1981), p. 50, no. 102.

Sharon Darling, Chicago Furniture, Art, Craft, and Industry, 1833–1983, exh. cat., (W.W. Norton, 1984), p. 255 (ill.).

John S. Bowman, American Furniture (Exeter Books, 1985), p. 159 (ill.).

Anita Gold, “Antiques and Collectibles,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 15, 1989, sect. 7, p. 55 (ill.).

Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), p. 46, no. 124.

Chicago from the Inside Out: The Roots of American Architecture (Abrams, 1993), ill.

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. 307-09, no. 157.

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zwers, Riverside, Illinois, by 1973; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.