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Henry Mather Greene
Rocking Chair from the Bedroom of the Robert R. Blacker House, Pasadena, California1907

Not on view
Pair of reddish-brown wooden rocking chairs with tan upholstered seats flanking a small square side table with a single drawer, all in a restrained Arts and Crafts style
Designer
Henry Mather Greene
Designer
Peter Hall Manufacturing Company
Designer
Charles Sumner Greene
Title
Rocking Chair from the Bedroom of the Robert R. Blacker House, Pasadena, California
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1907
Medium
Mahogany, ebony, oak, boxwood, copper, silver-plated steel, abalone, and cotton upholstery
Dimensions
37 3/8 × 25 7/8 × 31 1/4 in. (94.93 × 65.72 × 79.38 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
81.3.1
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Bowman, Leslie Greene. American Arts and Crafts: Virtue in Design. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990.
  • Kaplan, Wendy; W. Braznell; R. Clark; E. Cooke; E. Denker; B. Denker; R. Edwards; J. Fairbanks; S. Kinsey; G. Moss; C. Robertson; S. Thompson; R. Wilson; Catherine Zusy. "The Art that is Life": The Arts & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1987.