Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Bayou Bend Collection, Gift of Miss Ima Hogg Click the image to enlarge	Sack-back Windsor armchair
	Object number RIF2101
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 27 1/4 in. (69.215 cm) Width, arms: 22 1/2 in. (57.15 cm) Depth: 22 1/4 in. (56.515 cm)
	Date 1785–1800
	Current location Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple (seat); white oak; ash; hickory
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Windsor
	Provenance Louis Guerineau Myers (1874–1932), New York; consigned to American Art Association Anderson Galleries, New York, February 25, 1921, lot 469; sold to William C. Hogg (1875–1930), Houston, Texas; by bequest to his sister, Ima Hogg (1882–1975), Houston, 1930; given to the Bayou Bend Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1969
	Associated names Louis Guerineau Myers American Art Association William C. Hogg Ima Hogg
	Bibliography American Art Galleries, New York, Rare and Extremely Choice Collection Formed by the Widely Known Connoisseur Mr. Louis Guerineau Myers, sale cat. (February 24–26, 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), 155–156, 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.