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Tree Dog / Willard Stone

Essay/Description

This is a reference image scanned from an older transparency.

Gallery Label

Stone experimented with the effect using the cherry and the torch burned cherry in order to get the color variation in a black and tan hound.

From the exhibition: Willard Stone: Following the Grain, 2016.

Curatorial Remarks

In a 1982 interview, the artist said the base of this is un-burned Cherry wood and the figure is Cherry wood which was burned with a torch.

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Title(s): 
Tree Dog
Culture: 
Native American; Cherokee descent
Date: 
mid-20th century
Materials/Techniques: 
cherry wood
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Accession No: 
11.71
Previous Number(s): 
1127.71; 25880
Department: 
Not On View

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