Dark-green wooden rocking chair, with tall arched back and arms formed from slender bent wooden branches. The arm branches are attached at the sides of the carved seat. The back branches wrap over the arm branches. On the back, three vertical ribs radiating up from seat. Four cylindrical legs sit on rockers, with two stretchers between the legs on each side.

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Object Timeline

1905	Work on this object ended.
1968	We acquired this object.
2007	We photographed this object.
2008	We exhibited this object.
2015	We photographed this object. This was an Object of the Day.
2019	We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Bentwood Rocking Chair Rocking Chair

This is a Rocking chair. It is dated ca. 1900 and we acquired it in 1968. Its medium is painted maple. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

The rustic furniture trade grew in the Catskill mountains because of access to an abundance of suitable natural materials. The work required only basic tools—saws, clippers, penknives, hammers, and measures. The dramatically curved profile of this chair shows the sophistication and skill of its maker while revealing the natural qualities of the wood.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Bent into Shape.

This object was donated by George J. Fino. It is credited Gift of George J. Fino.

Landi Chair
molded and punched aluminum, silver anodizing, rubber.
Gift of Harry C. Sigman.
2013-21-34

A copper and brass kettle hanging from its wrought iron tripod stand. The kettle is round, with an angular spout and tall flared collar around the lid, three stubby brass legs and brass handle fittings supporting a horizontal ebony handle. The kettle is suspended from two hooks curving down from the arched arm of the stand. The arm continues down as one of the three legs of the stand. The legs are linked at their tops by a band of wrought iron surrounding a copper burner beneath the kettle, and, halfway down the legs, by twining supports surrounding a central spike with spiraling finial. The stand is wrapped with grapevine-like tendrils of wrought iron around the middle of the legs and lower part of the arm.

Kettle And Stand (England)
copper, brass, ebony (kettle), wrought iron (stand).
Museum purchase from the Decorative Arts Acquisition Fund.
1990-167-1-a/d

A wooden rocking chair. Its arms and bottom are dark wood that looks untreated. On its sides, connecting the arms to the bottom, are curvy figure 8 shapes formed from this dark wood. The seat and back are lighter wood planks, each one thin and rectangular. Behind the back is a large circle, formed out of the worn, darker wood.

Rocking Chair
steamed, bent sawn oak slats, nailed to bent hickory wood bark-covered branches.
2014-44-1

Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.

No. 4 Rocking Chair
bent beechwood, woven caning.
Museum purchase through gift of American Institute of Interior Designers.
1969-103-2

Table (USA)
wood.
Gift of the Hulla family in memory of Mark Wilson Hulla.
1987-37-1

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 119 x 58 x 61cm (46 7/8 x 22 13/16 x 24in.)

Cite this object as

Bentwood Rocking Chair Rocking Chair; USA; painted maple; H x W x D: 119 x 58 x 61cm (46 7/8 x 22 13/16 x 24in.); Gift of George J. Fino; 1968-143-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Botanical Expressions and Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CCPD/
Accession Number 1968-143-1
Object ID 18464395