Photo: Courtesy The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Bayou Bend Collection, Gift of Miss Ima Hogg
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Sack-back Windsor armchair |
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Object numberRIF2101 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 27 1/4 in. (69.215 cm) Width, arms: 22 1/2 in. (57.15 cm) Depth: 22 1/4 in. (56.515 cm) |
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Date17851800 |
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Current locationMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple (seat); white oak; ash; hickory |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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StyleWindsor |
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ProvenanceLouis Guerineau Myers (18741932), New York; consigned to American Art Association Anderson Galleries, New York, February 25, 1921, lot 469; sold to William C. Hogg (18751930), Houston, Texas; by bequest to his sister, Ima Hogg (18821975), Houston, 1930; given to the Bayou Bend Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1969 |
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Associated namesLouis Guerineau MyersAmerican Art Association William C. Hogg Ima Hogg |
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BibliographyAmerican Art Galleries, New York, Rare and Extremely Choice Collection Formed by the Widely Known Connoisseur Mr. Louis Guerineau Myers, sale cat. (February 2426, 1921), lot 469.David B. Warren et al., American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1998), 155156, no. F256. Nancy Goyne Evans, "Politics, Enterprise, and Design: The Nature and Influence of Windsor Chairmaking in Early Federal Rhode Island," American Furniture (1999): 57, fig. 10. |