Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Kelly, Tom,
Thompson, Tommy,
Architecture -- Domestic
Architecture -- Other
Folk
Architectural component
Outdoor Sculpture -- Nevada -- Rhyolite
Sculpture
The Bottle House, (sculpture).
Artist:
Kelly, Tom, sculptor.
Thompson, Tommy, sculptor.
Title:
The Bottle House, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Tommy's Tiny Town, (sculpture).
Dates:
Bottle House: 1905-1906. Tommy's Tiny Town: 1969.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculptures: mixed media, including bottles, wood, aluminum flashing, stone, cement, tile and glass; Base: concrete and bottles.
Dimensions:
Overall: approx. 20 x 24 x 24 ft.
Inscription:
unsigned
Description:
The Bottle House is a one-story, wood frame house with walls and a foundation made from over 50,000 bottles imbedded in adobe. Tommy's Tiny Town is a miniature town of approximately 37 wood and concrete houses and buildings, between 2-3 feet in height.
Subject:
Architecture -- Domestic -- House
Architecture -- Other -- Well
Object Type:
Folk
Architectural component
Outdoor Sculpture -- Nevada -- Rhyolite
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by United States Bureau of Land Management, Tonopah Nevada Division, Box 85, Amargosa Valley, Nevada 89020
Located Rhyolite, Nevada
Remarks:
The Bottle House was completed by Tom Kelly in Feb. 1906 and restored in 1925. Tommy's Tiny Town was built by Tommy Thompson in 1969 and it is situated in the yard on the north side of the Bottle House. IAS files contain pamphlet published by Friends of Rhyolite, entitled "Rhyolite Tour Guide," c. 1992, in which the sculpture and City of Rhyolite are discussed in more detail.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Nevada survey, 1994.
Illustration:
Image on file.
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 NV000065
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
NV000065
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact