Hitchcock Chair Back

c. 1936

Lawrence Flynn

Associated Names
Lawrence Flynn

Artist, American, 1900 - 1973

The image displays the backrest of a wooden chair with intricate decorative elements in gold and yellow on a dark brown background. The color palette consists of shades of brown with accents of gold and yellow. A floral and fruit motif is at the center of the upper horizontal section, with additional golden decorations along the sides. The artist's signature is found in the lower right corner of the image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, pen and i nk, and graphite on paper

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 35.8 x 27.4 cm (14 1/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
    Original IAD Object: none given

  • Accession Number

    1943.8.4360

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1970

  • Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design. New York, 1970: 206, pl. 793.

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: Lawrence/Flynn

Wikidata ID

Q64592711

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