Artwork Details
- Title
- Articulated Sailor with Gun
- Artist
- Unidentified
- Date
- ca. 1900
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- figure: 17 1⁄4 x 4 3⁄4 x 3 1⁄2 in. (43.8 x 12.1 x 8.9 cm.) gun: 1 x 1 3⁄8 x 1⁄4 in. (2.6 x 3.5 x 0.5 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- Mediums Description
- painted and carved wood with mixed media
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Recreation — leisure — smoking
- Figure male — full length
- Occupation — transportation — sailor
- Object — weapon — gun
- Object Number
- 1986.65.296A-B
Artwork Description
Artists often made toys with movable arms and legs. The creators of these two figures also added realistic details such as the fabric pants and leather holster of Sailor, and the real hair on Man.