Brass Tail Monkey
John Flannagan, Brass Tail Monkey, 1932, field stone and brass, Museum Purchase: Children's Museum Fund, © unknown, research required, 44.5
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- Title
Brass Tail Monkey
- Artist
- Date
1932
- Medium
field stone and brass
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
10 3/16 in x 6 3/16 in
- Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary Art; American Art
- Category
Sculpture
- Object Type
sculpture
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Children's Museum Fund
- Accession Number
44.5
- Copyright
© unknown, research required
- Terms
In the 1920s and 1930s, expanding definitions of art led to the acceptance of new forms. Modernists particularly found echoes of their own use of simplified forms and nontraditional techniques in the work of American folk and “outsider” artists, who had received no formal art training. John Flannagan adopted the technique of direct carving, working without models or maquettes.
