Side Chair

1869–70

Herter Brothers
American, 1864–1906
New York, NY

Status: On View, Gallery 175
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Herter Brothers
Title: Side Chair
Place: New York City (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. 1869–1870
Medium: Rosewood with marquetry of various woods, ivory, and upholstery
Inscriptions: Script initials in pencil at the back of seat: "GH"
Dimensions: 90.5 × 45.8 × 42 cm (35 5/8 × 18 × 16 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Wesley M. Dixon Jr. Endowment
Reference Number: 1988.199
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Tom Armstrong, “The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 134, 4 (Oct. 1988), 822–35 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1987–1988 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 14, pl. 24.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), 24, no. 65.
Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, “Gustave Herter, Cabinetmaker and Decorator,” Antiques 147, 5 (May 1995), 740–751 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 3rd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1997), ill.
Katherine S. Howe, et. al., Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, Houston: Museum of Fine arts, New York, 1994, cat. no. 9, 143–145 (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), 245–48, no. 118.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Herter Brothers: European Furniture Makers in the American Gilded Age, Aug. 20–Oct. 22, 1994, cat.; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Dec. 12, 1994–Feb. 12, 1995; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 14–July 30, 1995.

Commissioned by LeGrand Lockwood (1820-1872) for the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk, CT, from c. 1869 to 1872; Mansion and furnishings sold to Charles Drelincourt Mathews, from 1876 to 1941; Mansion and furnishings sold to the City of Norwalk, from 1941 to 1942; sold to a private collection, from 1942 1985; William Doyle Galleries, 1985; Peter Hill, East Lempster, New Hampshire, 1985; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

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