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Tirrell, Old Man,
Architecture -- Domestic
Figure
Animal
Object -- Toy
Folk
Sculpture
House Push Toy, (sculpture).
Artist:
Tirrell, Old Man, sculptor.
Title:
House Push Toy, (sculpture).
Dates:
1942.
Medium:
Carved, painted and turned wood with metal and string.
Dimensions:
15 1/4 x 22 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.
Inscription:
(Inscribed on roof of house:) 1942/Stalled and Rationed/Good Fish Head up Stream/Where/Quick Water Clears/waste time wasted/OLD MAN TIRRELL
Description:
A house sits on wheels, and as the wheels turn creatures in and on top of the house move back and forth on a wire armature and figures rotate on disks in front of the house.
Subject:
Architecture -- Domestic -- House
Figure
Animal
Object -- Toy
Object Type:
Folk
Sculpture
Owner:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1986.65.268
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Hemphill, Herbert Waide Jr., 1986.
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.67.
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.125.
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 08581874
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Inventory of American Sculpture
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