Object Details
Artist
Renée Stout, born Junction City, KS 1958
Exhibition Label
The Colonel’s Cabinet is a narrative of exploration and memory that traces the life of one Colonel Frank. Like the gentleman travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who created “cabinets of curiosities” filled with artifacts of distant people and places, the fictitious Colonel Frank collected small treasures to remind himself of where he had been and individuals he had met. An invented persona based on Stout’s father, who, she said, brought the world to her shy and introspective mother, the colonel also reflects Stout’s own search for a personal history.
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Right Era, and Beyond, 2012
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Copyright
© 1994, Renee Stout
Date
1991-1994
Object number
1994.45.1A-MMM
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Sculpture-Assemblage
Medium
mixed media: carpet, chair, painting, and cabinet with found and handmade objects
Dimensions
overall: 67 1/2 x 60 x 50 1/2 in. (171.5 x 152.4 x 128.3 cm.)
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Department
Painting and Sculpture
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Topic
Object\art object\sculpture
Object\furniture\chair
Object\written matter\book
Object\furniture\cabinet
Object\other\container
Object\musical instrument\guitar
Object\written matter\map
Object\art object\photograph
Object\weapon\dagger
Link to Original Record
Record ID
saam_1994.45.1A-MMM