Armchair

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Armchair
Datec. 1735–1790
Made inUnited States
MediumSoft maple and birch; ash
Dimensions45 1/2 × 24 × 23 1/2 in. (115.6 × 61 × 59.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.68.3
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Queen Anne Bedroom
Exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Although similar to (B.20.1), this chair is much simpler in its overall details. However, the columnar turning of the arm supports is distinctive. The single spindle-shaped side stretchers of this example place it closer to the Boston caned and leather-bottomed chairs, which were its prototype.


Technical notes: Soft maple (front legs, stretchers), birch (rear legs, front seat rail); ash (side and rear seat rails).


Related examples: Sack 1969–92, vol. 10, p. 2590, no. P-6185.


Book excerpt: Warren, David B., Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.



ProvenanceWayman Adams (1883–1959), before 1920 [1]; given to son Wayman C. Adams, Jr. (1924–1981), Austin; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1968; given to MFAH, 1968.

[1] Miss Hogg saw the chair in Adams’ New York studio in 1920, which was cited by her as the inspiration that led to the purchase of B.20.1 and began her Americana collection.
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Armchair
c. 1700–1725
Soft maple; hard maple, birch, ash, poplar, aspen poplar or cottonwood
B.69.44
Armchair
c. 1790–1810
Yellow-poplar, soft maple, elm, ash, birch, and beech
B.69.422
Side Chair
William Seaver and Nathaniel Frost
c. 1800–1805
Eastern white pine, birch, ash, and soft maple
B.69.427
Easy Chair
c. 1750–1800
Mahogany, soft maple, and birch; soft maple and birch
B.57.76
Armchair
c. 1750–1800
Mahogany; soft maple and birch
B.57.95
Armchair
c. 1730–1745
Soft maple and birch
B.61.40
Side Chair (one of a pair)
c. 1785–1820
Mahogany; eastern white pine, ash, beech, birch, and hard maple
B.69.376.1
scan from file photograph
c. 1785–1820
Mahogany; eastern white pine, ash, beech, birch, and hard maple
B.69.376.2
Armchair
c. 1700–1725
Soft maple, ash, poplar, and hickory
B.69.54
Armchair
c. 1790–1800
Eastern white pine, soft maple, white oak, mahogany, and ash. Old but not original green paint.
B.69.411
Armchair
c. 1785–1795
Yellow-poplar, soft maple, oak, and ash
B.69.410
Armchair
c. 1770–1785
Yellow-poplar, soft maple, red oak, and hickory (both handholds are replacements made of ash)
B.79.204