Fan-Back Windsor Chair

Arts of the Americas

1760–70

Artist unknown (American, active 18th century)
Philadelphia

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Fan-Back Windsor Chair
Place: Philadelphia (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. 1760–1770
Medium: Tulipwood, 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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Meyric R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Antiques (July 1958), 49–50 (ill.).
Helen Comstock, American Furniture Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles (Viking, 1962), no. 289.
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.).
American Heritage History of Colonial Antiques> (New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1967), no. 354.
Lester Margon, More American Furniture Treasures, 1620–1840 (New York, Architeactural Book Publiching Company, 1971), 180–81 (ill.).
Dean A. Fales, Jr., American Painted Furniture, 1660–1880 (New York, Dutton, 1972), no. 139.
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).
Johnathan L. Fairbanks and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates, American Furniture, 1620 to the Present (New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981), 285 (ill.).
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, Sept. 21, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, no cat.

Elizabeth Vaughan (born Tyson, 1871–1949), South Berwick, ME, and Sherborn, MA, by 1949 [incoming permanent receipt R9946, Jan. 11, 1950; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

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