Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible through Federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
"I never mutiny so much against France, that I am not perfectly friends with Paris...I love her tenderly, even to her wars and blemishes...But because it is, in truth my own humour, and peradventure not without some excess, I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Polander as a Frenchmen, preferring the universal and common tie to all national ties whatever."--Michel de Montaigne. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Artist:
Elaine Urbain, born Wauwatosa, WI 1925-died Milford, CT 2004 Search this
Overall: 4 3/4 x 41 1/8 x 1 5/8 in. Mask and Beads: 4 3/4 x 7 7/8 x 1 5/8 in. Mask: 3 5/8 x 7 5/8 x 1 5/8 in. Right upper tie: 16 1/2 x 5/8 in. Right lower tie: 16 5/8 x 5/8 in. Left upper tie: 16 1/4 x 5/8 in. Left lower tie: 16 1/8 x 5/8 in.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment