Unidentified
Untitled (Swan Decoy from Delaware)
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Untitled (Swan Decoy from Delaware)” now? Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Unknown.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., United States
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
The genre of “folk art,” objects and images made by working-class individuals, emerged in the early days of the American republic, with communally trained artisans or craftspeople and work that was often utilitarian or decorative in nature. In the early twentieth century, as folk art become more desirable among collectors, objects such as this swan decoy intersected with the clean, streamlined aesthetic of midcentury-modern art, shifting it from hunter’s lure to sculpture.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Details
- Accession number
- 2016.38.79
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Image: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
