Armchair

Arts of the Americas

Designed and made 1944

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Samuel A. Marx
Title: Armchair
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.: 1944
Medium: Birch and plastic
Dimensions: 77.1 × 58.8 × 57.2 cm (30 3/8 × 23 1/8 × 22 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Leigh B. Block
Reference Number: 1981.179

Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 74–76, cat. 20.

Art Institute of Chicago, Design Episodes: The Modern Chair, Apr. 23–Oct. 2, 2016 (no cat.).

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