Armchair

c. 1815

Artist unknown (American, 18th–19th century)
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 169
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Armchair
Place: New York City (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. 1815
Medium: Mahogany and upholstery
Dimensions: 83.8 × 49.5 × 53.3 cm (33 × 19 1/2 × 21 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society in honor of Perry H. Wheeler
Reference Number: 1993.121
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Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 1640–1970 (New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1972), no. 346 (ill.).
Robert Bishop, The American Chair – Three Centuries of Style (Bonanza Books, 1983), no. 346 (ill.).
Antiquarian Newsletter 3 (Apr. 1993), 1 (ill.).
“Chicago’s Art Institute Lists Recent Acquisitions,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (July 21, 1995), 80.
Eleanor H. Gustafson, “Museum Accessions,” Magazine Antiques 147, 5 (May 1995), 656 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 131–134, no. 53.

New York City, American Art Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Furniture and Glass for the Benefit of The National Council of Girl Scouts, Incorporated, Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 1929, cat. 752.
New York City, Parke–Bernet Galleries, Important American Furniture from the Estate of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Varick Stout, Jan. 22, 1966, cat. 168.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Varick Stout, New York City, 1929; Parke–Bernet Galleries, New York City, 1966; Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI, 1966; Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York City, 1992; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1993.

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