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Long Island and got a job as a sheet metal worker. After retirement, he bought a summer house in Margaretville, New York and began making whimsical sculptures to place on the lawn. This sculpture was a functioning mailbox on the roadside at Schoell’s home and heralded a visitor’s arrival to the artist’s lawn exhibit.
Artist
Joseph Schoell
(1907 - 1992)
Mailbox
Datec. 1985
MediumPainted tin
DimensionsOverall: 32 × 18 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (81.3 × 47 × 31.8 cm)
Object numberN0151.1993
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Museum Purchase
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextJoseph Schoell, an immigrant from Hungary came to the United States following the failed uprising against the Soviets in 1956, he settled on Long Island and got a job as a sheet metal worker. After retirement, he bought a summer house in Margaretville, New York and began making whimsical sculptures to place on the lawn. This sculpture was a functioning mailbox on the roadside at Schoell’s home and heralded a visitor’s arrival to the artist’s lawn exhibit.
On View
Not on viewLate 19th century
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