Folding Chair

chair

Name/Title

Folding Chair

Entry/Object ID

2015.25.1

Description

Wooden folding chair with needlepoint upholstery. The chair folds by lifting the seat, causing the X-shaped legs to collapse together. The top of the back is press carved with an Eastlake style pattern. The seat back is stitched with an image of an indigenous American man in a white-feathered war bonnet. The label "SITTING-BULL" is stitched across the bottom. The sling-style chair seat is embroidered with a geometric pattern of concentric squares. The front left corner is embroidered with the initials "F.E.H.", and the front right corner is stitched with the date, "1957". Where the chair seat wraps around the frame at the back is the stitched label, "CHAIR ANTE----DATES 1880".

Context

Upholstered by Frank Eugene Hartwell in Bolton, Vermont

Acquisition

Accession

2015.25

Source or Donor

Pierce, Grace Canning

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Artist

Hartwell, Frank Eugene (1873-1961)

Manufacturer

Long Trail Studios

Date made

1957

Place

Town

Bolton

County

Chittenden County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Chair

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Seating Furniture

Nomenclature Class

Furniture

Nomenclature Category

Category 02: Furnishings

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall (open)

Height

37 in

Width

19-1/2 in

Depth

21 in

Material

Wood, Metal, Burlap, Wool