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)
- Title
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Acupuncture Pitchfork Style
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1974
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 23 x 36 in. (58.5 x 91.5 cm.)
- Credit Line
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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
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- model airplane enamel on wood
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Object – other – sign
- Landscape – farm
- Animal – bird
- Animal – horse
- Figure group
- Object Number
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1997.124.12
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
