Sculpture
Organ Screen for the California School for the Blind
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- Date
- 1933-1934
- Accession number
- 2011.5
- Maker
- Sargent Claude Johnson(Opens in new tab) (American, 1888–1967)
- Dimensions
- overall: 105 × 264 × 2 in. (266.7 × 670.6 × 5.1 cm.) a: 71 1/2 × 76 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (181.6 × 194.9 × 6.4 cm.) b: 104 3/4 × 53 5/8 × 3 in. (266.1 × 136.2 × 7.6 cm.) c: 105 1/4 × 53 1/2 × 3 in. (267.3 × 135.9 × 7.6 cm.) d: 71 1/2 × 77 7/8 × 2 3/4 in. (181.6 × 197.8 × 7 cm.)
- Medium
- gilded and painted wood
- Description
- Low relief carving for an organ screen, in four parts a) left panel (deer facing out) b) center left panel (rabbit only) c) center right panel (rabbit and deer) d) right panel (deer facing in)
- Credit
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Art Collectors' Council, the Connie Perkins Endowment, and the Virginia Steele Scott Acquisition Fund for American Art in honor of George Abdo and Roy Ritchie
- Object copyright
- Commissioned by the Federal Arts Project for the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Department
- American Art
- Find out more
- View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)
