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Exhibition History“American Folk Art: Collection from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France, January 25, 2001 – March 24, 2001.
“Art of the Everyman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, May 28, 2014 – September 29, 2014.
Workshop of
Simeon Skillen Jr.
(1756 - 1806)
Apollo
Datec. 1795
MediumPainted wood
DimensionsOverall: 25 × 16 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (63.5 × 41.9 × 24.1 cm)
Object numberN0539.1948
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextSimeon Skillen, Jr. was the foremost Boston ship carver of his day. Coming from a large family of ship carvers in Boston, Massachusetts, Skillen was regularly hired to carve ship figureheads and shop signs, architectural garden sculptures and ornamental sculpture for furniture. Apollo, the Greek god of music, poetry, prophecy, and medicine, probably served as a library ornament for someone well-versed in classical antiquity.Exhibition History“American Folk Art: Collection from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France, January 25, 2001 – March 24, 2001.
“Art of the Everyman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, May 28, 2014 – September 29, 2014.
On View
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