Side chair | Yale University Art Gallery

1755–75

Medium: American black walnut; front corner blocks, Atlantic white cedar; rear corner blocks, yellow poplar; slip seat frame, pine of the taeda group
Dimensions: 37 9/16 × 16 × 17 7/8 in. (95.4 × 40.6 × 45.4 cm)
seat: 17 × 19 5/8 in. (43.2 × 49.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2479
Geography: Middle Atlantic Colonies
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Alexander M. Hudnut, New York, N.Y., and Princeton, N.J.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y. (1927); 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), 120-121, no. 101, ill

Edgar G. Miller, American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1937), vol. 1, pp. 158–59, no. 138

Edward Wenham, The Collector's Guide to Furniture Design (New York: Collectors Press Lithography Workshop, 1928), 21, fig. 49

Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), n.p., fig. 2233

American Art Association, New York, Duncan Phyfe and Other Fine Early American Furniture and Decorations: The Private Collection of Alexander M. Hudnut, Removed from His Country Residence at Princeton, New Jersey, sale cat. (November 19, 1927), 56, no. 76

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Additional information

Object/Work type

side chairs

The numeral "I" appears on the inside of the rear seat rail and on the seat frame.

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