Object Details
- Artist
- Unidentified
- Luce Center Label
- Early-twentieth-century wood-carvers often made toy figures with movable parts to amuse their children. The Fiddler’s arms and legs can be moved to suggest that he is playing the violin and dancing; in Seated Man with Pipe the figure’s left arm can move up and down to simulate the gesture of smoking. In both sculptures the artists paid more attention to animating the figures than they did to detail or color.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- early 20th century
- Object number
- 1986.65.295
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Sculpture
- Folk Art
- Medium
- carved and painted wood
- Dimensions
- approx. 10 x 6 x 5 in. (25.4 x 15.2 x 12.7 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 27A
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure male\full length
- Performing arts\music\fiddle
- Record ID
- saam_1986.65.295
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk77a9bf98c-0b85-4272-84d2-2f81f065ca21
