Object Details
Artist
Claire Falkenstein, born Coos Bay, OR 1908-died Venice, CA 1997
Luce Center Label
Claire Falkenstein experimented with a wide variety of materials including reinforced concrete, copper tubing, wire, glass, and steel. In the early 1940s she made wooden sculptures that fragmented simple forms into pieces that could be taken apart and reassembled. Baseball Bat divides the narrow shape of a bat into several colored sections, and Fertility is composed of three painted axe handles. Both pieces disguise the original function of the objects and display Falkenstein’s interest in color and abstract form.
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Claire Falkenstein McCarthy Trust
Date
1941
Object number
1998.24.2
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Sculpture
Medium
polychromed ash
Dimensions
37 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (95.6 x 14.6 cm.)
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
Department
Painting and Sculpture
On View
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 49B
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Topic
Abstract
Object\toy\sports equipment
Link to Original Record
Record ID
saam_1998.24.2