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American Decorative Arts
Carver: Henry Gudgell, American, 1826–1895
Cane
ca. 1867
Ebonized wood
37 × 1 1/2 in. (94 × 3.8 cm)
Director’s Purchase Fund
1968.23
Geography:
Made in Livingston County, Missouri
Status:
On view
Culture:
American
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Tools and Equipment
Bibliography:
John Michael Vlach, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978), 35-36, 162, no. 37.
Robert Farris Thompson, Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts, ed. William R. Ferris (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985), 31-33, 158, ill.
Richard J. Powell, African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures, ed. Vincent L. Wimbush (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2003), 342-45, 350, no. 1, ill.
Allan Weiss, “An Odyssey: Finding the Other Henry Gudgell Walking Stick,” Folk Art: Magazine of the American Folk Art Museum (Fall 2008): 52–53, ill.
Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 21, 56–57, no. 25, ill.
Pamela Franks and Robert E. Steele, Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2010), 10, 12, 43, ill.
Carol Crown, Cheryl Rivers, and Charles Reagan Wilson, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 23: Folk Art (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013), 291-92.
Lisa E. Farrington, African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 38–40, fig. 3.9.
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