Object Details
- Artist
- Claire Falkenstein, born Coos Bay, OR 1908-died Venice, CA 1997
- Luce Center Label
- Claire Falkenstein experimented with a wide variety of materials including reinforced concrete, copper tubing, wire, glass, and steel. In the early 1940s she made wooden sculptures that fragmented simple forms into pieces that could be taken apart and reassembled. Baseball Bat divides the narrow shape of a bat into several colored sections, and Fertility is composed of three painted axe handles. Both pieces disguise the original function of the objects and display Falkenstein’s interest in color and abstract form.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Claire Falkenstein McCarthy Trust
- 1941
- Object number
- 1998.24.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- polychromed ash
- Dimensions
- 37 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (95.6 x 14.6 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, 49B
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Abstract
- Object\toy\sports equipment
- Record ID
- saam_1998.24.2
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk748a5c0bc-e105-4ceb-9cf2-ac1ab1e1d534
