[Get free] The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America
☆ Ralph Sessions ☆
| #767118 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2005-04-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .93 x9.26 x12.30l,3.63 | File Name: 0691120811 | 240 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating history and display of Americana|By D. Graves|As one who once collected nautical antiques at a fairly high level, I never owned a ship's figurehead - but dreamed of it. Trips to the Peabody-Essex Museum (Salem, MA) with my father fueled that desire, seeing some of the best examples of the shipcarver's art still extant today. Seeing these figureheads up close, as yo||| Winner of the 2006 John Lyman Book Award in Reference, North American Society for Ocean History| || Winner of the 2006 William E. Fischelis Award, The Victorian Society in America|
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Among the most popular and ubiquitous sculptures in nineteenth-century America were the ship's figurehead and the cigar-store Indian. The vast majority of these engaging human figures were created by shipcarvers-highly skilled artists celebrated for their masterful figureheads but who collectively made tens of thousands of shop figures as well, from fanciful representations of American Indians to firemen, baseball players, and fashionable women.
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