Artwork Details
- Title
- Waiting for Master
- Artist
- Date
- 1986
- Location
- Dimensions
- overall: 37 3⁄4 x 16 x 26 in. (95.9 x 40.6 x 66.0 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Howard Kottler Testamentary Trust
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- earthenware, paint, simulated gold leaf, and applied decals
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Animal — dog
- Object Number
- 1991.194.1A-C
Artwork Description
The cartoonish dog of Waiting for Master is covered in a decal made to look like gold leaf. The piece disassembles to reveal the master’s hand, with the phrase “Waiting For Master Is Waiting for Life” written below it. Under the hand sits a small version of the dog on a pedestal looking at a building. Howard Kottler used this piece to convey his feelings that “we’re all in attendance on someone . . . Our pets control us, just as we control them.” (Patricia Failing, Howard Kottler: Face to Face, 1995)