Eagle

Arts of the Americas

1865–90

Wilhelm Schimmel (American, born Germany, 1817–1890)
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Wilhelm Schimmel (Sculptor)
Title: Eagle
Place: Pennsylvania (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1865–1890
Medium: Painted and carved tulipwood
Dimensions: 32.7 × 68.1 × 30.5 cm (12 7/8 × 26 13/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
Reference Number: 1950.1984
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Alan R. Sawyer, “American Folk Art,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 47, no. 1 (Feb. 1, 1953): 11–14 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, American Art and the Great Seal, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1973–1982), v. 70, no. 4 (July–August 1976), 2–12 (ill.).
Anita Gold, Collectibles Chicago Tribune, Section 15, November 18, 1990, 17 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, “For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) no. 50.
Karla Klein Albertson, “Photography + Folk Art,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Nov. 19, 2019, https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/photography-folk-art, ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s, Sept. 21, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, no cat.

Elizabeth Vaughan (born Tyson, 1871–1949), South Berwick, ME, and Sherborn, MA, by 1949 [incoming permanent receipt R9946, Jan. 11, 1950; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

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