Side Chair

1910

George Grant Elmslie
American, born Scotland, 1871–1952

Status: On View, Gallery 179
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: George Grant Elmslie
Title: Side Chair
Place: Chicago (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.: 1910
Medium: Oak, laminated wood, leather, jute webbing, and horsehair
Dimensions: 127.3 × 48.9 × 41.2 cm (50 1/8 × 19 1/4 × 16 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mrs. William P. Boggess II Fund
Reference Number: 1973.342

“Mission Accomplished,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 14, 1980, sect. 13.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (American Association for State and Local History, 1981), 50, no. 102.
David Hanks, “Chicago Furniture,” in Mary Jean Madigan, et al., Nineteenth Century Furniture: Innovation, Revival and Reform (New York, 1982), 90-91 (ill.).
Sharon Darling, Chicago Furniture, Art, Craft, and Industry, 1833–1983, exh. cat., (W.W. Norton, 1984), 255 (ill.).
John S. Bowman, American Furniture (Exeter Books, 1985), 159 (ill.).
Anita Gold, “Antiques and Collectibles,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 15, 1989, sect. 7, 55 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), 46, no. 124.
Chicago from the Inside Out: The Roots of American Architecture (Abrams, 1993), 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), 307–09, no. 157.

Princeton, New Jersey, The Art Museum, The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876–1916, Oct. 21–Dec. 17, 1972, cat. 76; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 24–Apr. 22, 1973, Washington, DC, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, June 1–Sept. 10, 1973.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1976, cat. 166.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Hundred Years of American Architectural Drawings, Apr. 13–June 4, 1978.
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Furniture: Art, Craft, and Industry, 1833–1983, Dec. 5, 1983–Aug. 31, 1984, no cat.; Washington, DC, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 12, 1984–Apr. 7, 1985, New York, Cooper Hewitt Museum, May 21–Aug. 25, 1985.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 1900, June 18–Sept. 4, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 45.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zwers, Riverside, IL, by 1973; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.

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