Side Chair by George Grant Elmslie
Art Institute of Chicago

Side Chair

George Grant Elmslie · 1910

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zwers, Riverside, IL, by 1973; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Princeton, New Jersey, The Art Museum, The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876–1916, Oct. 21–Dec. 17, 1972, cat. 76; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 24–Apr. 22, 1973, Washington, DC, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, June 1–Sept. 10, 1973.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1976, cat. 166.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Two Hundred Years of American Architectural Drawings, Apr. 13–June 4, 1978.
  • Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Furniture: Art, Craft, and Industry, 1833–1983, Dec. 5, 1983–Aug. 31, 1984, no cat.; Washington, DC, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 12, 1984–Apr. 7, 1985, New York, Cooper Hewitt Museum, May 21–Aug. 25, 1985.
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 1900, June 18–Sept. 4, 1994.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://archive.artic.edu/apostlesbeauty/"><em>Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago</em></a>, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 45.

Literature

Published references

  • “Mission Accomplished,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 14, 1980, sect. 13.
  • Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (American Association for State and Local History, 1981), 50, no. 102.
  • David Hanks, “Chicago Furniture,” in Mary Jean Madigan, et al., Nineteenth Century Furniture: Innovation, Revival and Reform (New York, 1982), 90-91 (ill.).
  • Sharon Darling, Chicago Furniture, Art, Craft, and Industry, 1833–1983, exh. cat., (W.W. Norton, 1984), 255 (ill.).
  • John S. Bowman, American Furniture (Exeter Books, 1985), 159 (ill.).
  • Anita Gold, “Antiques and Collectibles,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 15, 1989, sect. 7, 55 (ill.).
  • Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), 46, no. 124.
  • Chicago from the Inside Out: The Roots of American Architecture (Abrams, 1993), 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), 307–09, no. 157.
  • Judith A. Barter, ed., <em>Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 193, cat. 45 (ill.).

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