Dragon Weather Vane

1935/1942

Dorothy Hay Jensen

Artist, American, 1910 - 1999

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor, pen and ink, and colored pencil on paper

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 34.4 x 47.1 cm (13 9/16 x 18 9/16 in.)
    Original IAD Object: 75" long

  • Accession

    1943.8.8070

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2002

  • Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, no. 76, as Sea Serpent Weather Vane by Dorothy Hay.

2019

  • Maine and the Index of American Design, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, 5 Oct 2018-25 Mar 2019, cat. 18.

2021

  • American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds, American Folk Art Museum, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

2002

  • Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003: no. 76.

2018

  • Bianco, Jane. Maine and the Index of American Design. exh. cat. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockand, Maine, October 5, 2018 - March 24, 2019: 45, cat.18, ill.

Wikidata ID

Q64555898

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