
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Side Chair
Herter Brothers · 1869–70
Provenance
Ownership history
- Commissioned by LeGrand Lockwood (1820-1872) for the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk, CT, from c. 1869 to 1872; Mansion and furnishings sold to Charles Drelincourt Mathews, from 1876 to 1941; Mansion and furnishings sold to the City of Norwalk, from 1941 to 1942; sold to a private collection, from 1942 1985; William Doyle Galleries, 1985; Peter Hill, East Lempster, New Hampshire, 1985; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, <em>The Herter Brothers: European Furniture Makers in the American Gilded Age</em>, Aug. 20–Oct. 22, 1994, cat.; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Dec. 12, 1994–Feb. 12, 1995; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 14–July 30, 1995.
Literature
Published references
- Tom Armstrong, “The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 134, 4 (Oct. 1988), 822–35 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1987–1988 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 14, pl. 24.
- Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), 24, no. 65.
- Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, “Gustave Herter, Cabinetmaker and Decorator,” Antiques 147, 5 (May 1995), 740–751 (ill.).
- Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 3rd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1997), ill.
- Katherine S. Howe, et. al., Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, Houston: Museum of Fine arts, New York, 1994, cat. no. 9, 143–145 (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), 245–48, no. 118.
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