Side Chair

1735–43

Attributed to John Gaines III (American, 1704–1743)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire

John Gaines III learned to turn banister-back chairs from his father, John Gaines, Jr. The younger Gaines brought this aesthetic tradition with him to Portsmouth but soon incorporated the graceful, curvilinear forms of the new late-Baroque style. This chair represents the transition between the older influence and new fashion.

Status: On View, Gallery 165
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: John Gaines, III
Title: Side Chair
Place: Portsmouth (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. 1735–1743
Medium: Maple
Dimensions: 108 × 45.7 × 44.5 cm (42 1/2 × 18 × 17 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field
Reference Number: 2014.1184
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John T. Kirk, American Furniture and The British Tradition (Knopf, 1982), fig. 22.
Israel Sack, Celebrating Our Ninetieth Anniversary (Israel Sack, 1993), no. p–6192.
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), p. 62, no. 11.
Annual report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014–15) online only.

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1993; sold to Jamee J. and Marshall Field, Chicago, by 1994; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

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