The Most Indirect Route Maker: Betty J. Scarpino (American, born 1949)

1997

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study

Medium

Turned, carved, bleached, and ebonized maple, with lacquer and graphite

Dimensions

15 × 3 × 12 in. (38.1 × 7.6 × 30.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth and David Waterbury, B.A. 1958, in honor of Patricia E. Kane, Ph.D. 1987

Accession Number

2000.93.3

Geography

Made in Indianapolis, Indiana

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Inscriptions

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Provenance
The artist, Indianapolis; sold through the Arkansas Art Center, Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, Ark. [see note 1]; sold to Ruth and David Waterbury, Minneapolis, 1997; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2000

Note 1: Included in the exhibition "Moving Beyond Tradition: A Turned-Wood Invitational," Arkansas Art Center, Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, Ark., October 19–November 19, 1997.
Bibliography

  • Glenn Adamson et al., Conversations with Wood: Selections from the Waterbury Collection, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2011), 199, 248, no. 421, ill.
  • "Acquisitions 2000," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2001): 154.
  • Patricia E. Kane, Wood Turning in North America since 1930 (Philadelphia and New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 139, 144, no. 128, ill.

Object copyright
Not Assigned
Additional information

Subject

Women makers

Marks

Incised in script on upright element: Betty J. Scarpino; incised in script on base: Betty J. Scarpino 1997 "The Most Indirect Route"

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