Hall Chair
Charles Rohlfs
c. 1900
Medium
Oak with black stain
Dimensions
144.8 × 48.3 × 38.7 cm (57 × 19 × 15 1/4 in.)
Classification
seating
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
149777
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The son of a New York cabinetmaker, Charles Rohlfs spent his early years working as a designer of cast-iron stoves and furnaces while pursuing an acting career in his spare time. In 1884 he married the novelist Anna Katharine Greene and moved with her to Buffalo, where he took up woodworking after being unable to afford high-quality furniture. What began as a personal venture had become a commercial endeavor by 1898. The first of Rohlfs’s exhibitions to receive national attention was held at Chi...