Side Chair
III John Gaines
1735–1743
- Medium
- Maple
- Dimensions
- 108 × 45.7 × 44.5 cm (42 1/2 × 18 × 17 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Seating
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
seatingamerican artsmapleFurnitureamerican decorative arts
About
John Gaines III learned to turn banister-back chairs from his father, John Gaines, Jr. The younger Gaines brought this aesthetic tradition with him to Portsmouth but soon incorporated the graceful, curvilinear forms of the new late-Baroque style. This chair represents the transition between the older influence and new fashion.