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Toy Bank: Rooster

c. 1937

Beverly Chichester

Associated Names

Beverly Chichester

Artist, American, active c. 1935

The image shows a sculpture or model of a rooster. The rooster is dark brown and black with detailed feathers and a red comb and wattles. It stands on a green base. The color palette consists of earth tones with red and green. The rooster faces left in the center of the image, and the name Beverly Chichester is written on the right side.

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Artwork overview

Medium

watercolor and gouache on paperboard
Credit Line

Index of American Design
Dimensions

overall: 40.7 x 30.5 cm (16 x 12 in.)
Original IAD Object: 6 1/2" high; 2 1/4" wide; 5 1/2" long
Accession Number

1943.8.17154

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1970

Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design, New York, 1970: 651, pl. 2383.

Inscriptions

lower right in watercolor: Beverly / Chichester

Wikidata ID

Q64537652

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