Armchair | Yale University Art Gallery

1760–80

Medium: American black walnut; slip seat frame, pine of the Taeda group
Dimensions: 43 × 17 7/8 × 17 1/2 in. (109.2 × 45.4 × 44.5 cm)
seat: 17 × 22 3/8 in. (43.2 × 56.8 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2500
Geography: Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

John L. Black, Washington, D.C.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y. (1926); The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection.

Bibliography

Jane Wildgoose, Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship and the Order of Things, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art, 2009), 32, no. 160

Patricia E. Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture Chairs and Beds from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 150-152, no. 129, ill

Douglass Scott, Joan Ketter, and Michael Boodro, The American Clock, 1725–1865, Forgeries and Restorations in American Furniture: Two Yale Student Exhibitions, May 18–June 28, 1974, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Garvan Furniture Study, May 18–June 28, 1974), n.p., no. 11

John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 78, fig. 66

American Art Association and American Art Galleries, New York, Colonial Object Collection of John L. Black, sale cat. (January 9, 1926), 35, fig. 122

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Object/Work type

armchairs

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