Accordion Player, (sculpture).

Accordion Player, (sculpture).

Layden, Benniah G., 1875-1968, sculptor.

Accordion Player, (sculpture).

Carved and painted wood and peach pits.

Overall: 30 1/8 x 12 x 8 in.

A figure of a man playing an accordion is seated on top of a traditional chain carving, interlocking wooden chains with caged balls whittled from a single piece of wood. There is another male figure, at the bottom of the chain carving, who is surrounded by peach pits with faces carved in them.

Performing Arts -- Music -- Accordion

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1986.65.255A-C

Formerly in the collection of Hemphill, Herbert Waide Jr., ca. 1971-1986.

Acquired from Baltimore, Maryland ca. 1971.

Former accession number 1986.65.255.

National Museum of American Art, 1990.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006.

Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, "Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art," Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, no.179.

Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, "Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art," Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, pg.209.

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