Taniscot Engine House Sign

1935/1942

Edbury Hatch

Associated Names
Curry M. Bartlett

Artist, American, 1896 - 1984

The relief sculpture shows firefighter equipment including a helmet, a bucket labeled "1", crossed ladders, a trumpet-like horn, an axe, a lantern, and a coiled hose. The color palette features shades of gold and brown against a dark gray background. The objects are positioned as follows: the helmet in the center, flanked by an axe on the right and a lantern on the left, with the trumpet-like horn on the right and the bucket at the top. The ladders are crossing diagonally, and a coiled hose is at the bottom center.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and graphite on paper

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 31 x 41.9 cm (12 3/16 x 16 1/2 in.)
    Original IAD Object: 24" high; 36" wide

  • Accession Number

    1943.8.8064

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Wood and Wood Carving from the Index of American Design, Pensacola Museum of Art, 1995, no cat.

2019

  • Maine and the Index of American Design, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, 5 Oct 2018-25 Mar 2019, cat. 2.

Bibliography

1970

  • Hornung, Clarence P., Treasury of American Design. New York, 1970: 103, pl. 314.

2018

  • Bianco, Jane. Maine and the Index of American Design. exh. cat. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockand, Maine, October 5, 2018 - March 24, 2019: 55, cat 2, ill.

Wikidata ID

Q64556270

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