- Artist:
- Petersen, Eric
- Title:
- Gaff - Staff
- Description:
- An etching of a female scarecrow with a large sunflower for a face. She is wearing a blue blouse that has gray sleeves. Over the blouse she is wearing a multi-patterned sleeveless dress that has two gingerbread-like figures in the middle of the skirt. She is also wearing red-and-black checkered stockings. In her right hand, she is holding a basket full of eggs and a white bird is sitting on her right shoulder. In her left hand, she is holding a fish and there is a shepherd's crook attached to her left arm. Two corn plants are behind her, one on either side. On the ground to the left there is a beehive and a small dog. On the ground to the right, there is a cat. In the background, there are two hills with a ram on the one to the right and a ewe on the one to the left.
- Source:
- Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Source Identifier:
- jmz.396
- Size:
- image: 28 x 20 in.; framed: 35 1/8 x 28 1/2 in.
- Frame:
- Wood (plant material)
- Media:
- Etching (printing process)
- Condition:
- undamaged
- Provenance:
- Purchased by Jack and Maxine Zarrow at a NARSAD Artwork Exhibit, which was held at the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, November 17, 1999. The exhibition was to benefit the Mental Health Association in Tulsa, OK. In addition to this painting, the Zarrows purchased two others: "Forest Glen," which they donated to the Mental Health Association, and "Face to Face" by Susan Foldy, which they gifted.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Gaff - Staff", The Maxine & Jack Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Reference Link:
- https://zarrow.library.okstate.edu/_site/items/jmz.396.html
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