Object Record

Images

1 of 1977

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Metadata

Object ID #

1963.029.001

Object Name

Carving

Title

Holstein Cow Carving

Lexicon category

8: Communication Artifact

Credit line

Gift of the Artist

Year Range from

1959

Year Range to

1963

Artist

Brown, J. Erskine Horton

Made

Brown, Erskine

Place of Origin

Thornbury, Town of the Blue Mountains, Grey County

Description

Hand-carved wooden, standing Holstein cow carving on a plain wooden base. The cow is painted black and white. He did not paint the udder pink - it is white. Its left foreleg and right hindleg are both forward. The underside of the wooden base is signed "Erskine Brown / Thornbury / Ontario" in black ink (ballpoint pen).

Makers mark

The underside of the wooden base is signed "Erskine Brown / Thornbury / Ontario." (in ink)

Provenance

Made by J. Erskine Horton Brown sometime between 1959 and 1963. Gift of the artist.

Collection

Folk Art Collection

Material

Wood/Paint

Medium

Wood

Dimensions

H-4.724 W-2.559 L-6.89 inches

Found