Object Details
- Artist
- Unidentified
- Luce Center Label
- An unknown artist probably made this piece for a minstrel show during the late nineteenth century. Minstrel shows were hugely popular, and the instruments, especially the banjo, often appeared as decorative furniture, clocks, and wall hangings. The artist created Banjo Chair by fixing brackets around the seat, carving the seat back to resemble a peghead, and inlaying thin strips of wood to represent the strings. (Lynda Hartigan, Made with Passion, 1990)
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- ca. 1875
- Object number
- 1986.65.73
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Furniture
- Folk Art
- Medium
- turned, inlaid, painted, stained, and varnished wood
- Dimensions
- 41 x 15 3/8 x 20 5/8 in. (104.2 x 39.1 x 52.4 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Decorative Arts
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 25A
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Object\musical instrument\banjo
- Record ID
- saam_1986.65.73
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7ce4884cf-c8a1-4907-9a23-38ef18c04044
