Fan-Back Windsor Chair

Arts of the Americas

1760/70

Artist unknown
American, active 18th century
Philadelphia

Currently Off View: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Fan-Back Windsor Chair
Origin: Philadelphia
Date: c. 1760–1770
Medium: Yellow poplar, maple, hickory, and oak
Dimensions: 102.4 × 49.1 × 44.5 cm (40 3/8 × 19 3/8 × 17 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
Reference Number: 1950.1713

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Lester Margon, “American Windsor Chair,” Workbench (Sept./Oct. 1964), 32–33.
Lester Margon, Masterpieces of American Furniture (New York, Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1965), 120 (ill.).
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Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), cat. 16.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1981), 14, (ill. no. 16).
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Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America, 1730–1830 (Philadelphia, Running Press, 1981), 91 (ill.).
“Quiz: American Chairs,” Americana 12, 4 (Sept./Oct. 1984), 36, 103 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed. (Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1989), no. 184 (ill. p. 68).
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), 105–106, no. 38.
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, “For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012), fig. 10, 17.
Karla Klein Albertson, “Photography + Folk Art,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Nov 19, 2019, https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/photography-folk-art, ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s, Sep 21, 2019–Jan 19, 2020, no cat.

Elizabeth R. Vaughan, Boston by 1950; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

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