Lot 144
144
A CARVED AND PAINTED PINE POODLE WITH STICK
A CARVED AND PAINTED PINE POODLE WITH STICK
A CARVED AND PAINTED PINE POODLE WITH STICK
A CARVED AND PAINTED PINE POODLE WITH STICK
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A CARVED AND PAINTED PINE POODLE WITH STICK

ATTRIBUTED TO WILHELM SCHIMMEL (1817-1890), CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A CARVED AND PAINTED PINE POODLE WITH STICK
ATTRIBUTED TO WILHELM SCHIMMEL (1817-1890), CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
4 in. high, 6 1⁄2 in. wide, 2 1⁄4 in. deep
Provenance
Jane Wallace, Detroit, Michigan
Ruth and James O. Keene, Detroit, Michigan
Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1997, lot 165
James & Nancy Glazer, Villanova, Pennsylvania
Acquired from above, January 1997
Literature
The Detroit Institute of Art, American Folk Arts from the Collection of Ruth and James O. Keene (Detroit, 1960), p. 27, no. 34.
Richard I. Barons, The Folk Tradition: Early Arts and Crafts of the Susquehamma Valley (New York, 1982), p. 188, no. 199.
Peter Goodman, Notebook, no. 971.
Exhibited
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, American Folk Arts from the Collection of Ruth and James O. Keene, 1-26 March 1960.

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Lot Essay

Born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Wilhelm Schimmel travelled to Pennsylvania and settled in the Cumberland Valley, near Carlisle. He is reputed to have bartered in carved animals for drink, meals or money. He did not travel far from the Condoguinet Creek area and died in the Cumberland County Almshouse in 1890. For another example of Schimmel's work see lot 145.

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