Object Details
- Artist
- Heinz Warneke, born Bremen, Germany 1895-died Madison, CT 1983
- Luce Center Label
- In 1935, Wild Boars was awarded the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal, an award given to many fine American sculptures by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The work was inspired by a smaller sculpture that Heinz Warneke had made out of granite. In this version he focused on the features that made the boars distinctive---the proportionally large head and jowls, the small, squat legs---and exaggerated them. The sleek, polished surface of the marble makes the boars seem stoic and massive in spite of their small scale.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Heinz Warneke
- ca. 1931
- Object number
- 1993.44.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- marble
- Dimensions
- 18 3/4 x 13 7/8 x 26 3/8 in. (47.7 x 35.3 x 67.0 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 48B
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Animal\pig
- Record ID
- saam_1993.44.1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7a37c3896-5086-4f8d-9120-20864f888034
