Armchair

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Designer Greene & Greene Architects(American, active 1894–1922)American, active 1894–1922

Maker Peter Hall Manufacturing Company(American, active 1906–1918)American, active 1906–1918

CultureAmerican

Titles

Armchair

Date1907

MediumTeak, ebony, and leather (original)

Dimensions40 5/16 × 24 × 24 1/2 in. (102.4 × 61 × 62.3 cm)

Credit LineGift in memory of C. H. Sugg

Object number2025.224

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

109 Long & Sarofim Gallery

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Department

Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Object Type

FURNITURE

ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Robert R. Blacker, Pasadena, CA, 1908-1946; Mr. and Mrs. C.O. Bockelmann, Pasadena, CA, by acquisition of the house and its contents, their sale, 1947; private Texas collection, from 1947 and then by descent; given to MFAH, 2025.

Exhibition HistoryA "New and Native" Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene and Greene, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, October 18, 2008-January 26, 2009; Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., March 13-June 7, 2009; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 14-October 18, 2009.

One of the other 2 known examples was exhibited, ''Greene & Greene and the American Arts & Crafts Movement,'' The Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, 1994-2008.
Published References Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990, p. 49 (for the example in the collection of LACMA) Kenneth R. Trapp, The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life, New York, 1993, p. 167 (for the example in the collection of LACMA) Randell L. Makinson and Thomas A. Heinz, Greene & Greene: The Blacker House, Salt Lake City, 2000, pp. 72-73 (for the design drawing of the current model and a period photograph showing this model in situ in the Blacker entry hall) Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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