Armchair

Arts of the Americas

1680–1710

Artist unknown (American, active 17th–18th century)
Coastal Connecticut or Long Island, New York

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Armchair
Place: Connecticut (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1680–1710
Medium: Ash or maple
Dimensions: 160 × 54.6 × 40 cm (41 3/4 × 21 1/2 × 15 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Wirt D. Walker Fund
Reference Number: 1946.515
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Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (Nashville, TN, The American Association for State and Local History, 1981), 12 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed. (Nashville, TN, The American Association for State and Local History, 1989) 1 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s, Sept. 21, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, no cat.

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