id:			151001
accession number:	1982.5
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.5
updated:		2025-04-30 11:28:30.348000

Chair, c. 1880. Herter Brothers (American). Ebonized cherry and other woods; overall: 84.5 x 40.7 x 46 cm (33 1/4 x 16 x 18 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1982.5

title:				Chair
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creation date:			c. 1880
creation date earliest:		1875
creation date latest:		1885
current location:		208 American Gilded Age and Realism
creditline:			Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
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culture:	America, New York
technique:	ebonized cherry and other woods
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Furniture
type:		Furniture and woodwork
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CREATORS

* Herter Brothers (American)  - artist
Christian Herter (1840-83). Born in Stuttgart. He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris before joining his elder half-brother Gustave (1830-98) in New York in 1860. Gustave had been there since 1848 and had worked for Tiffany before founding his own furniture and decorations firm in 1857. In 1864 Christian returned to Paris to study under Pierre-Victor Gallard (1822-92) and in the early 1870s he was in England. Herter Brothers became a leading New York furniture and decorating business in the 1870s and 1880s, being one of the first to abandon the usual run of historical styles and produce pieces rather similar to those made contemporaneously in England, with a discreet use of oriental motifs. Marquetry furniture like that made for the railroad magnate Jay Gould in 1877-82 or the luxurious gilt and inlaid furniture made for the William H. Vanderbuilt House, NY, c. 1882 is typical of the more extravagant type of aesthetic movement in the US. He employed a large staff of craftsmen and designers, the latter including the architect Charles B. Atwood (1849-95). The firm survived until 1906.
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measurements: Overall: 84.5 x 40.7 x 46 cm (33 1/4 x 16 x 18 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1982
	opening date:   1983-01-05T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1982</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Private collection, Connecticut.  (Lyndhurst Corporation, New York).
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hawley, Henry. “Four Pieces of American Furniture.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 69, no. 10 (December 1982): 324–339.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 330-332, fig. 9
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159796

	Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3–55.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 17; Mentioned: p. 51, no. 28
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159799

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IMAGES

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