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Root Monster
1968
Miles Burkholder Carpenter
Born: Brownstown, Pennsylvania 1889
Died: Petersburg, Virginia 1985
carved and painted tree roots, rubber, metal, and string
22 5/8 x 28 5/8 x 28 1/4 in. (57.5 x 72.7 x 71.6 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
1986.65.238
Smithsonian American Art Museum
1st Floor, West Wing
Keywords
Fantasy - monster
sculpture
folk art
metal - iron
plant material - roots
rubber
wood
About Miles Burkholder Carpenter
Born: Brownstown, Pennsylvania 1889 Died: Petersburg, Virginia 1985
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