The Westminster Kennel Club held its first dog show in New York City on this day in 1877.
Lawrence W. Ladd's folk art reveals a comic, fanciful interpretation of dog shows and their animated participants!
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The Westminster Kennel Club held its first dog show in New York City on this day in 1877.
Lawrence W. Ladd's folk art reveals a comic, fanciful interpretation of dog shows and their animated participants!
Ladd, also known as the Utica Master, drew upon a wide range of sources for his diverse images, including illustrated histories of the United States, advertisements, Currier and Ives prints, illustrated Bibles, periodicals, and travel books.
Source: Lynda Roscoe Hartigan. Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C. and London: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990).
Pictured: Lawrence Ladd, active 1865–1895, Trained Dogs, about 1880, watercolor on paper, 7 3/8 x 10 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Bates and Isabel Lowry.