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"MINUTE MAID" Articulated Figure, (sculpture). Artist:  Unknown, sculptor. Title:  "MINUTE MAID" Articulated Figure, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Articulated Figure of Bing Crosby, (sculpture). Dates:  ca. 1950s. Medium:  "Minute Maid" orange juice can, carved and painted wood, and turned iron. Dimensions:  10 1/2 x 3 1/8 x 2 3/4 in. Description:  The body of the figure is made out of a Minute Maid orange juice can. His arms and legs are attached with metal tacks and joints so that they can move. Part of another Minute Maid orange juice can was used to fashion a hat for the figure. Subject:  Homage -- Crosby, Bing Object -- Toy -- Doll Object Type:  Folk Sculpture Owner:  Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1986.65.277 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection Hemphill, Herbert Waide Jr., 1986. Acquired from Eisenlau, Elbert C., New York, New York 1971. 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.30. 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. 31. 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 08581927   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 08581927 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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