Cane with Dog-Headed Handle : en salle — Smithsonian American Art Museum

Artists decorate canes with a wide variety of images, from traditional carvings of snakes and birds, to nude women, political figures, and celebrities. Some artists highlight the natural shape of the wood by applying relief designs onto twisted branches and roots, while others carve three-dimensional shapes into the shaft. Images of animals are the most popular decoration, but many canes also show patriotic, fraternal, and political themes. (George Meyer, American Folk Art Canes, 1992)

Cane with Dog-Headed Handle

À propos de la sculpture

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Dans la même salle · Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 28A, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Sur le même thème · Animal

Oui, elle reçoit

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Au catalogue

Sources

Muskrat, before 1997

Cane with Boot-Shaped Handle, late 19th-early 20th century

Fish Decoy, ca. 1940s

Fish Decoy, ca. 1940

Sucker Decoy, ca. 1940s

Frog Decoy, ca. 1940s

Fish Decoy, ca. 1930s

Fish Decoy, ca. 1930s

Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

The Bull (Le taureau), 1946

The Bull (Le taureau), 1945

The Bull (Le taureau), 1945

The Poor (Les pauvres), 1905, published 1913

Dream and Lie of Franco I, 1937

The Bull (Le taureau), 1946

The Frog (Les Grenouilles), 1936