About This Artwork
Herter Brothers
American, 1864-1906
Sideboard1876/80
Oak with white pine
230 x 213.4 x 73.7 cm (91 1/2 x 84 x 29 in.)
Incised stamp at back left facing the sideboard: "HERTER BROS'S"; black crayon inscription top back of projecting bay: "Rerbison"
Robert R. McCormick Charitable Trust, 1982.1113
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Philadelphia College of Art, Portrait of an Era, 1830–1930, Oct. 14–17, 1982.
Publication History
“Portrait of an Era to open October 14 in Philadelphia,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (Sept. 17, 1982), p. 69 (ill.).
Lita Solis–Cohen, “Chicago Shows Off – Tastefully,” Maine Antiques Digest (Dec. 1988), pp. 12B–15B (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), p. 38.
Katherine S. Howe et al., Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, exh. cat. (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Abrams, 1994), fig. 31.
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. 243-45, no. 117.
Ownership History
Private collection, Montclair, New Jersey; Lincoln Mayflower Galleries, Orange, New Jersey, 1980; Robert Bahssin, Post Road Gallery, Larchmont, New York, from 1980 to 1982; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.