Claire Falkenstein grew up riding her horse along Coos Bay in Oregon and began incorporating animals into her art at an early age. Though her preferred medium shifted dramatically during her seven-decade career – from painting and drawing to jewelry and monumental sculpture – much of her work retained the sense of motion and interwoven parts that characterize Branding. In Falkenstein’s vision of cattle branding, close inspection reveals the outline of steers, male figures, a branding iron, hooves, and a fence.
Abstract Drawings, 2012
Abstract Drawings, 2012
- Title
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Branding
- Artist
- Date
- 1943
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 14 1⁄2 x 18 3⁄4 in. (36.8 x 47.6 cm)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of the Claire Falkenstein McCarthy Trust
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- India ink, colored pencil, pencil and watercolor on paper
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Figure
- Occupation – farm – animal husbandry
- Animal – cattle
- Object Number
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1998.24.4
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- Linked Open Data
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