About This Artwork
Herter Brothers
American, 1864-1906
Side Chair, 1869/70
Rosewood with marquetry of various woods, and ivory
90.5 x 45.8 x 42 cm (35 5/8 x 18 x 16 1/2 in.)
Script initials in pencil at the back of seat: "GH"
Wesley M. Dixon, Jr., Endowment, 1988.199
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "The Herter Brothers: European Furniture Makers in the American Gilded Age," Aug. 20-Oct. 22, 1994; traveled to Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Dec. 12, 1994-Feb. 12, 1995, New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 14-July 30, 1995.
Publication History
Tom Armstrong, “The New Field-McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 134, 4 (Oct. 1988), pp. 822–35 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1987–1988 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), p. 14, pl. 24.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), p. 24, no. 65.
Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, “Gustave Herter, Cabinetmaker and Decorator,” Antiques 147, 5 (May 1995), pp. 740–751 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 3rd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1997), 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. 245-48, no. 118.
Ownership History
Commissioned by LeGrand Lockwood for the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk, Conn., from c. 1869 to 1872; Mansion and furnishings sold to Charles Drelincourt Mathews, from 1876 to 1941; Mansion and furnishings sold to the City of Norwalk, from 1941 to 1942; sold to a private collection, from 1942 1985; William Doyle Galleries, 1985; Peter Hill, East Lempster, New Hampshire, 1985; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.