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PENNSYLVANIA, 19TH CENTURY
Details
A CARVED AND PAINTED FIGURE OF A SPREADWING EAGLE
Pennsylvania, 19th century
Relief-carved depicting a large eagle with spread wings and arched neck, the head facing left and slightly splayed with talons grasping a rectangular plinth, the feathers incised throughout the front, with applied glass-eye and red-painted tongue
20in. high, 48in. wide, 14in. deep
Pennsylvania, 19th century
Relief-carved depicting a large eagle with spread wings and arched neck, the head facing left and slightly splayed with talons grasping a rectangular plinth, the feathers incised throughout the front, with applied glass-eye and red-painted tongue
20in. high, 48in. wide, 14in. deep
Literature
Lipman and Winchester, The Flowering of American Folk Art (New York, 1974), p. 182, fig. 242.
Gordon, Masterpieces of American Folk Art (Lincroft, N.J., 1975).
Gordon, Masterpieces of American Folk Art (Lincroft, N.J., 1975).
Exhibited
New York, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, "The Flowering of American Folk Art: 1776-1876" 1 February - 24 March 1974 (Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 22 April - 2 June 1974; San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 24 June - 15 September 1974).
Lincroft, New Jersey, Monmouth County Historical Society, "Masterpieces of American Folk Art" 30 September - 29 November 1975.
Lincroft, New Jersey, Monmouth County Historical Society, "Masterpieces of American Folk Art" 30 September - 29 November 1975.