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    Fiddler, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Jones, Shields Landon, 1901- , sculptor.
    Title: 
    Fiddler, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Country Band with Fiddler, Dobro Player, and Banjoist, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1975
    Medium: 
    Carved, rouletted and painted hardwood, pencil, felt-tipped pen, string, and metal.
    Dimensions: 
    3 parts. (Fiddler: 23 1/4 x 7 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.) (Dobro player: 25 x 7 7/8 x 7 3/8 in.) (Banjoist: 25 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.)
    Description: 
    Three standing male figures: One playing a fiddle; one playing a dobro; and one playing a banjo. Each figure wears a shirt and tie, and boots that lace up the front.
    Subject: 
    Figure group -- Male
    Performing Arts -- Music -- Banjo
    Performing Arts -- Music -- Dobro
    Performing Arts -- Music -- Violin
    Object Type: 
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1986.65.250A-C
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Hemphill, Herbert Waide Jr., 1975/76-1986.
    Acquired fromt Jones, Shields Landon, Hinton, West Virginia 1975.
    Remarks: 
    Former accession number 1986.65.250.
    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.181.
    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.211.
    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 08580777
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