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Exhibition History"Millennial Dreams: Utopian Visions in American Folk Art," Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY, November 13, 1999 - May 14, 2000.
Artist
Unidentified Artist
(American)
Angel
Datec. 1890
MediumPainted wood
DimensionsOverall: 10 × 27 in. (25.4 × 68.6 cm)
Object numberN0170.1961
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Label TextThis weathervane adorned a boathouse on Old North Wharf on Nantucket, where it was found and purchased by folk art collectors Jean and Howard Lipman in 1946. Aside from an oral tradition claiming the weathervane’s origin in Hingham, Massachusetts, no documentation has been found regarding its history. It is probably the creation of a local woodworker who adapted the popular Angel Gabriel motif into a simple and powerful design of a late 19th-century girl in a white pinafore and black shoes.Exhibition History"Millennial Dreams: Utopian Visions in American Folk Art," Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY, November 13, 1999 - May 14, 2000.
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