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WATER GATE OR GOVERNMENT MACHINE NO. 3, (sculpture). Artist:  Garrison, Harold, 1923- , sculptor. Title:  WATER GATE OR GOVERNMENT MACHINE NO. 3, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Water Gate, (sculpture). Government Machine No. 3, (sculpture). Dates:  1974. Medium:  Pen and ink on carved wood with leather, metal, and coated wire. Dimensions:  13 3/4 x 15 x 3 1/2 in. Inscription:  (Beneath horizontal base, left side, in ink:) BY HAROLD GARRISON (On plywood back piece:) MADE BY HAROLD GARRISON / DECEMBER 1974 signed Description:  When the trigger is pulled, the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant rock back and forth; an arrow shows where Henry Kissinger goes; Sam Ervin emerges from obscurity; the White House tapes appear; Nixon resigns; Gerald Ford takes the oath of office; a street sign for Pennsylvania Avenue unfolds; taxes rise; and a door marked Water Gate opens to reveal spotted bugs. Subject:  History -- United States -- Watergate Allegory -- Other -- Nixon, Richard M. Allegory -- Other -- Ervin, Sam Allegory -- Other -- Ford, Gerald Allegory -- Other -- Kissinger, Henry Occupation -- Political -- President Occupation -- Law -- Lawyer Occupation -- Political -- Vice President Occupation -- Political -- Secretary of State Animal -- Elephant Animal -- Donkey Object Type:  Folk Sculpture Owner:  Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1986.65.248 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Hemphill, Herbert Waide Jr., 1975-1986. Acquired from Camp, Jeffrey, Richmond, Virginia 1975. 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.91. 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.143. 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 08580630   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 08580630 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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