Were You a Good Person This Year?
If so, maybe Santa will deliver a toy to you tonight!Boxing Ring Crank Toy, a work from our folk art collection, would be a delightful gift to find under your tree! Combining disparate elements in an odd setting has produced an unusual crank toy. When the crank is turned, myriad activities are set into motion. The pinwheels and propellers on the towers turn and the creatures between them move up and down; in the ring, the boxers and the referee go into action. The moving parts are enhanced by the colorful scraps of fabric wrapped around them.
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 top: Unidentified artist, n.d., Boxing Ring Crank Toy, 20th century, painted wood, cardboard, Masonite with metal, fabric, thread, twine, glass beads, and pencil, 27 1/4 x 25 1/2 x 15 3/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson.
Pictured bottom: Unidentified artist, n.d., Boxing Ring Crank Toy (detail).
If so, maybe Santa will deliver a toy to you tonight!Boxing Ring Crank Toy, a work from our folk art collection, would be a delightful gift to find under your tree! Combining disparate elements in an odd setting has produced an unusual crank toy. When the crank is turned, myriad activities are set into motion. The pinwheels and propellers on the towers turn and the creatures between them move up and down; in the ring, the boxers and the referee go into action. The moving parts are enhanced by the colorful scraps of fabric wrapped around them.