Armchair and Two Side Chairs | Yale University Art Gallery

1720–60

Medium: American black walnut; slip seat frame, pine of the Taeda group
Dimensions: 40 1/16 × 17 3/4 × 16 1/2 in. (101.8 × 45.1 × 41.9 cm)
seat: 17 7/16 in. (44.3 cm)
seat rails: 22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2077a-c
Geography: Made in Pennsylvania
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Francis D. Brinton, West Chester, Pa.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y. (1929); The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection.

Bibliography

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), 85-86, no. 64, 65, ill

John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 69, fig. 47

John T. Kirk, Early American Furniture: How to Recognize, Evaluate, and Care for the Most Beautiful Pieces: High Style, Country, Primitive and Rustic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), 12, fig. 3

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

side chairs

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