Object Details
- Artist
- Unidentified
- Luce Center Label
- Farmers often carved scenes of animals and chores as toys for their children. This sculpture shows a mother pig attempting to carry her young away from a man who carries some kind of weapon and is trying to capture the animals.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- 20th century (pre-1960s)
- Object number
- 1986.65.341
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Sculpture
- Folk Art
- Medium
- carved and stained wood with wire, screws, and nails
- Dimensions
- 6 x 11 1/4 x 6 3/8 in. (15.2 x 28.6 x 16.2 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 27B
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure male\bust
- Animal\pig
- Occupation\farm\farmer
- State of being\mood\worry
- Object\weapon\gun
- Record ID
- saam_1986.65.341
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk73fdddd17-eb45-4712-8ca0-8158e23c1257
