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John William ("Uncle Jack") Dey, Acupuncture Pitchfork Style, ca. 1974, model airplane enamel on wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.12
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In this painting, "Uncle Jack" Dey combined his memories of the Maine landscape with imagined characters to create a surreal, confusing world. A man with a ladle hangs from a kite string over a vat of "Mince Pie Mix with Rum," while a woman in a short blue dress attacks him with a pitchfork. Dey filled the sky with blackbirds to emphasize the ominous activities of this woman and her "exotic pies." (Tom Patterson, Contemporary Folk Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2001)
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Acupuncture Pitchfork Style
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- ca. 1974
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- Not on view.
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23 x 36 in. (58.5 x 91.5 cm.)
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
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- model airplane enamel on wood
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- Object – other – sign
- Landscape – farm
- Animal – bird
- Animal – horse
- Figure group
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1997.124.12
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JOHN WILLIAM ("Uncle Jack") Dey
Born: Phoebus, Virginia 1912– Died: Richmond, Virginia 1978
Acupuncture Pitchfork Style
about 1974, model airplane enamel on wood
