Black Hawk Horse Weathervane Pattern, (sculpture).

Black Hawk Horse Weathervane Pattern, (sculpture).

Leach, Henry, 1809-1885, sculptor. (attributed to)

Black Hawk Horse Weathervane Pattern, (sculpture).

Carved and painted wood.

22 x 34 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. (55.9 x 87.6 x 9.3 cm).

Figure of a trotting horse. It is a model, or pattern, for making the hollow iron molds that were used to mass produce weathervanes.

Animal -- Portrait -- Black Hawk

Animal -- Horse

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1986.65.358

Formerly in the collection of Hemphill, Herbert Waide, Jr., early 1960s-1986.

Acquired from Earnest, Adele, Stony Point, New York early 1960s.

Formerly attributed to L. W. Cushing and Sons.

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.

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.

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