Monument Valley Plate

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Object Details

Artist

Mary Douglas, born Taylorsville, NC 1956

Luce Center Label

Mary Douglas painted onto this copper plate an iconic scene of Utah’s Monument Valley, familiar to us from our schoolbooks and from the Hollywood Westerns that were filmed there. This and the other plates in the series were originally intended to sit together on a wall-mounted shelf, as households across the country often do with souvenir plates.

Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist

Date

1986

Object number

1998.113.1

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Decorative Arts

Crafts

Medium

commercial copper plate, primer, oil paint, patina, and wax

Dimensions

5/8 x 9 in. (1.6 x 22.9 cm) diam.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department

Renwick Gallery

On View

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 52B

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor

Data Source

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic

Figure group

Travel\land\horse

Landscape\valley\Monument Valley

Equestrian

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk77f593b2b-ff3c-484b-9838-81e8b887732a

Record ID

saam_1998.113.1