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Carver: Henry Gudgell, American, 1826–1895
Cane
ca. 1867
Ebonized wood
37 × 1 1/2 in. (94 × 3.8 cm)
other: 1 1/2 in. (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:
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.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
