Art Institute of Chicago
Armchair
Frank Lloyd Wright · 1937–39
Provenance
Ownership history
- Commissioned by S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., for the Johnson Wax Company, Racine, WI, 1937–39; Johnson Wax Company, Racine, WI, from 1937–39; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1972.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 54–56, cat. 14.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 77. 86.
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