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Exhibition History“Five Star Folk Art,” Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY, September 13, 1990 – November 15, 1990.
Artist
James Lombard
(1865 - 1920)
Rooster Weathervane
Datec. 1880 - 1890
MediumPainted wood
DimensionsOverall: 18 3/4 × 21 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (47.6 × 54 × 3.2 cm)
Object numberN0227.1961
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextJames Lombard was a farmer from central Maine who produced weathervanes for his community of Bridgton and as far away as Wells, some sixty miles away. Lombard worked with simple pine planks, which he sawed and chiseled into lively silhouettes of hens and roosters. This weathervane is particularly elaborate in its carving, perhaps because it was made for Lombard’s own barn in Bridgton.Exhibition History“Five Star Folk Art,” Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY, September 13, 1990 – November 15, 1990.
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