Chair

ca. 1897

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Scottish, 1868-1928

On View

Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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Title Chair

Artwork Date ca. 1897

Artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Life Dates 1868-1928

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Scottish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oak, with reproduction horsehair seat

Dimensions Overall: 54 × 18 3/4 × 16 1/4 inches (137.2 × 47.6 × 41.3 cm)

Classification Furniture

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Museum Purchase, with gifts from Clan Crawford, Jr. and the City of Detroit by exchange; and a partial gift of Ellen and William Taubman

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2007.145

Markings

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Marks Stamp, on front right glue block support: 15

Provenance

(Haslam & Whiteway, London, England)

after 1983, William and Ellen Taubman

2007-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Museum Acquisitions," Apollo 166, no. 550 (December 2007), p.

Darr, Alan Phipps, Yao-Fen You, and Megan Reddicks. “Recent Acquisitions (2007–15) of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” The Burlington Magazine 158 (June 2016): pp. 501–512, p. 510 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Chair, ca. 1897, oak, with reproduction horsehair seat. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, with gifts from Clan Crawford, Jr. and the City of Detroit by exchange et al., 2007.145.