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Leach, Henry,
Animal -- Portrait
Animal -- Horse
Folk
Weather vane
Sculpture
Black Hawk Horse Weathervane Pattern, (sculpture).
Artist:
Leach, Henry, 1809-1885, sculptor. (attributed to)
Title:
Black Hawk Horse Weathervane Pattern, (sculpture).
Dates:
1871-1872.
Medium:
Carved and painted wood.
Dimensions:
22 x 34 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. (55.9 x 87.6 x 9.3 cm).
Description:
Figure of a trotting horse. It is a model, or pattern, for making the hollow iron molds that were used to mass produce weathervanes.
Subject:
Animal -- Portrait -- Black Hawk
Animal -- Horse
Object Type:
Folk
Weather vane
Sculpture
Owner:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1986.65.358
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Hemphill, Herbert Waide, Jr., early 1960s-1986.
Acquired from Earnest, Adele, Stony Point, New York early 1960s.
Remarks:
Formerly attributed to L. W. Cushing and Sons.
References:
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.1.
"Earl Cunningham's America," Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2007, no. 16.
Illustration:
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, "Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art," Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, pg.82.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS 08582307
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Inventory of American Sculpture
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