PROBABLY NEW YORK CITY, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Details

AN ARTICULATED PAINTED PINE AND FABRIC CYCLIST
PROBABLY NEW YORK CITY, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
21 ¼ in. long, 15 ½ in. high, 4.3./4 in. wide

Provenance

Litchfield Auction Gallery, Litchfield, Connecticut, 6 June 1981, lot 184 (illustrated on cover)

Literature

Litchfield Auction Gallery, advertisement, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, 5 June 1981, p. 124.
Elizabeth V. Warren, Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art (New York, 2019), p. 102.

Exhibited

New York, American Folk Art Musuem, Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art, 19 March - 28 July 2019.

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Lot Essay

This bicycle figure is thought to be depicting a participant in the Six-Day Bicycle Race, an endurance bike race established in 1891 and held at Madison Square Garden. It is possible that this figure might have hung in the rotunda of Madison Square Garden during the races (Elizabeth V. Warren, Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art (New York, 2019), pp. 101-102.)

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