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Side Chair

A work made of mahogany, ebony, and upholstery.

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  • A work made of mahogany, ebony, and upholstery.

Date:

1907–9

Artist:

Charles Sumner Greene
American, 1868–1957
Made by Peter Hall Manufacturing Company
American, 1906–1922
Pasadena, California

About this artwork

At the height of their careers, Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene designed the Pasadena winter residence of the midwestern lumber baron Robert R. Blacker. The Blacker House (1907–09) marries Asian simplicity with the openness of California’s Hispanic haciendas and demonstrates the brothers’ masterful integration of an architectural plan with interior furnishings. This side chair—which Charles Greene designed for the Blacker House’s living room—display hallmarks of his mature style. Here he combined exquisite workmanship and elaborate joinery with poetic details like ebony pegs and abstract cutaways on the chairback.

Status

On View, Gallery 178

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Charles Sumner Greene

Title

Side Chair

Place

Pasadena (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. 1907–1909

Medium

Mahogany, ebony, and upholstery

Dimensions

95.3 × 50.2 × 45.7 cm (37 1/2 × 19 3/4 × 18 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Reference Number

1982.990

Extended information about this artwork

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