Armchair

1940

Harry Eisman

Artist, American, active c. 1935

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 43.3 x 34.6 cm (17 1/16 x 13 5/8 in.)
    Original IAD Object: 130 cm high; 58 cm wide.

  • Accession

    1943.8.4543

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2002

  • Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, no. 35, as Slat-back Armchair.

Bibliography

1970

  • Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design. New York, 1970: 191, pl. 705.

2002

  • Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003: no. 35.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: H. EISMAN

Wikidata ID

Q64573138

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