Easy Chair
This chair exhibits the standard characteristics of Philadelphia easy chairs: the arm supports are C-scroll shaped, the wings have beveled front edges designed so that the upholstering could be formed into a continuous curve inside the outer edge, the seat rails are framed up with horizontal timbers, and the legs are of a popular local pattern. The back on this chair, however, is unusually narrow in relation to its height and the curve of the front seat rail is unusually flat in the middle. Based upon comparison to easy chairs with similar features, this chair, with claw feet, seems to date somewhat later than the earliest examples of the Philadelphia easy chair.
Artwork Details
- Title:Easy Chair
- Date:1745–60
- Geography:Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Culture:American
- Medium:Walnut, maple, pine, cedar, tulip poplar
- Dimensions:46 1/4 x 33 1/2 x 28 3/8 in. (117.5 x 85.1 x 72.1 cm)
- Credit Line:Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1938
- Object Number:38.52.1
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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1740–60
Attributed to Benjamin Randolph (American, 1737–1792)
ca. 1769
Attributed to Adam Hains (1768–after 1820)
1792–97
1760–90
1760–90
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