Untitled (Figure with Yellow Face)After 196136 1/2 x 18 1/2 x 13 " (92.7 x 47 x 33 cm)Mixed media with bottle capsGift of George H. Meyer2007.22.101546613549Clarence WoolseyGrace WoolseySculptureCopyright for this work is under review. LincolnLincolnUnited StatesIowaLincolnClarence and Grace Woolsey were working as farmhands in the area of Lincoln, Iowa, when they made their first assemblages in 1961, using bottle caps they had accumulated. For the next ten years, the husband and wife created at least two hundred sculptures: buildings, animals, vehicles, and fantasy figures resembling rabbits. The Woolseys began displaying their art in a bottle cap menagerie they called the World’s Largest Pioneer Caparena and charged visitors a 25-cent admission fee. After a time, lack of public interest discouraged the couple, however, and they abandoned this avocation, placing the sculptures in a barn on Grace’s brother’s farm. Twenty years later, their sculptures resurfaced when the farm was auctioned.Stacy C. Hollander, "Untitled (Five Figures)," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information. To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgObject information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information. To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgThe face of this figure is made up of mostly yellow bottle caps that form a pattern around its face leaving a "T" shaped area clear around its eyes and nose. Its eyes and nose are built up with layers of bottle caps. Short arms protrude directly form the side of its body. Its torso is composed largely of blue bottle caps, and its feet or white bottle caps. It has a square torso. The legs are about the same length as the torso19501969 2007 22 1 Clarence and Grace Woolsey were working as farmhands in the area of Lincoln, Iowa, when they made their first assemblages in 1961, using bottle caps they had accumulated. For the next ten years, the husband and wife created at least two hundred sculptures: buildings, animals, vehicles, and fantasy figures resembling rabbits. The Woolseys began displaying their art in a bottle cap menagerie they called the World’s Largest Pioneer Caparena and charged visitors a 25-cent admission fee. After a time, lack of public interest discouraged the couple, however, and they abandoned this avocation, placing the sculptures in a barn on Grace’s brother’s farm. Twenty years later, their sculptures resurfaced when the farm was auctioned.Stacy C. Hollander, "Untitled (Five Figures)," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information. To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgObject information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information. To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgThe face of this figure is made up of mostly yellow bottle caps that form a pattern around its face leaving a "T" shaped area clear around its eyes and nose. Its eyes and nose are built up with layers of bottle caps. Short arms protrude directly form the side of its body. Its torso is composed largely of blue bottle caps, and its feet or white bottle caps. It has a square torso. The legs are about the same length as the torso