Side Chair

Hugh Finlay

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

On account of their similarities to thoroughly documented pieces, this chair, one of a pair, has been attributed to the Finlay brothers, who were born in Ireland and immigrated to Baltimore in the 1790s. They are from a sixteen-piece suite of furniture that was likely made for the Buchanan family of Baltimore.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art