Leaping Stag and Rocky Knoll Weathervane1870–190027 x 35 1/4 x 3 1/2 " (68.6 x 89.5 x 8.9 cm)Molded and gilded sheet copperGift in memory of Burt Martinson, founder and first president of the Museum of American Folk Art, by Cordelia Hamilton1985.14.10(including construction) Leaping stag with six-horned antlers. Front legs are bent under body, head and ears pulled back and back legs extended creating dynamic effect of stag leaping over grassy knoll: mounted on horizontal rod with angled ends. Body and rock cast in half round and soldered. Antlers and insides of legs separately cast and soldered. Two posts attaching stag to supporting rod: behind front legs, extending 1/" through rock and supporting rod; and back R foot, short rod to horizontal bar.152742757W.A. Snow & Co.Harris & CompanyArchitectureThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster22629BostonBostonUnited StatesMassachusettsThree Dimensional WorksBostonObject 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.orgweathervanea comparison of the design, finish and construction methods of unsigned examples to signed pieces can often yield an attribution. Virtually every company made deer weathervanes and many made nearly identical deer leaping over a grassy knoll. (see xeroxed examples) The J. Harris Co. of Boston produced a deer that was indistinguishable from its competitor, W.A. Snow & Co. and according to Steve Miller this piece may have been manufactured in either company.http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster22629http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster22629http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster2262918701900 1985 14 1 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.orgweathervanea comparison of the design, finish and construction methods of unsigned examples to signed pieces can often yield an attribution. Virtually every company made deer weathervanes and many made nearly identical deer leaping over a grassy knoll. (see xeroxed examples) The J. Harris Co. of Boston produced a deer that was indistinguishable from its competitor, W.A. Snow & Co. and according to Steve Miller this piece may have been manufactured in either company.