About This Artwork
Artist unknown
Hatfield or Deerfield, Massachusetts
Chest1700/10
Oak with white pine
82.5 x 122.5 x 48.2 cm (33 1/2 x 48 1/4 x 19 in.)
Robert R. McCormick Charitable Trust Fund, 1979.1459
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Edith Gaines, “Collectors’ Notes,” Magazine Antiques (Sept. 1963), p. 304.
Patricia E. Kane, “The Seventeenth Century Furniture of the Connecticut River Valley; The Hadley Chest Reappraised,” Arts of the Anglo-American Community in the Seventeenth Century (Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum/University Press of Virginia, 1975), no. 101.
Marvin D. Schwartz, “American Collection Growing at Art Institute,” Antique Monthly (May 1980), p. 21A (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1981), p. 66 (ill. p. 141).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed. (Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1989), no. 166 (ill. p. 62).
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. 51-53, no. 4.
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, "For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012), fig. 2, p. 33.
Ownership History
Lillian B. Coqan, Farmington, Conn., to 1963; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Wax, Wethersfield, Conn., from 1963 to 1979; John Walton, Jewett City, Conn., 1979; Marshall Field, Chicago, 1979; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.