Stephan Polaha was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and later moved to Reading, Pennsylvania. He became regionally celebrated for painted woodcarvings of animals. Polaha especially loved dogs and made carvings of them with sweet comical faces, such as this bright-eyed canine, and sometimes gave them angel-like wings, showing the artist’s abiding reverence for these loyal companions.
(We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection, 2022)
(We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection, 2022)
- Title
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Green Eyed Dog
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1975
- Location
- Dimensions
- 13 5⁄8 × 18 7⁄8 × 6 7⁄8 in. (34.6 × 47.9 × 17.5 cm)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Margaret Z. Robson Collection, Gift of John E. and Douglas O. Robson
- Mediums Description
- carved and painted wood and glass
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Animal – dog
- Object Number
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2016.38.61
- Palette
- Emoji
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
