Organ Screen
Maker
Sargent Claude Johnson
(American, 1888 - 1967)
Additional Title(s)
- Screen
ClassificationsSCULPTURE
Date1933-1934
Mediumgilded and painted redwood
Dimensionsoverall: 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.)
DescriptionLow 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 LineThe 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
CopyrightCommissioned by the Federal Arts Project for the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Status
On viewObject number2011.5
Savonnerie Manufactory
1719/84; frame of later date (probably nineteenth-century).
Object number: 11.41
