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Object Details
- Artist
- Charles LeDray, born Seattle, WA 1960
- Gallery Label
- In Picnic, tiny colorful ceramics depicting food sit atop a pinwheel quilt that rests on miniature cinder-blocks, all handcrafted by the artist. Picnic's nostalgic subject and diminutive scale evoke the innocent pleasures of childhood, but there is so much more to digest in this deceptively simple sculpture. The fact that some of the paired foods are identical, while others are complementary or contrasting, might suggest ideas of identity and difference. For instance, do the slices cherry and blueberry pie allude to political divisions? LeDray leaves us to ponder such questions as we delight in the intricate details of the piece.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Debbie Frank Petersen, Nina and Michael Zilkha, and Mickey Cartin, and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Copyright
- © 2013, Charles LeDray
- 2005-2013
- Object number
- 2015.18A-C
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- mixed media
- Dimensions
- 5 3/8 × 31 1/2 × 28 1/4 in. (13.7 × 80.0 × 71.8 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Object\fruit
- Object\vegetable
- Object\foodstuff
- Record ID
- saam_2015.18A-C
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk75ef8df80-8e5d-4535-b50f-91264503eb41
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