Museum’s Afternoon Chair
Museum’s Afternoon Chair
Tommy Simpson
1983
Materials
Walnut, ash, padauk, maple, daguerrotype, copper, fiber, gold leaf, bone, and found objects
Size
45 1/4 x 36 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches
Racine Art Museum, Gift of Katherine Nikolina Keland
About the artwork.
While an innovator in studio furniture, Tommy Simpson does not limit his creativity to that type of work as he creates sculpture, quilts, rugs, paintings, jewelry, and more. Pieces like Museum’s Afternoon Chair–more sculptural than functional–reflect his desire to blend personal and cultural references, here in the form of found objects such as a nineteenth-century ceramic transferware plate and a daguerreotype.