Marla

Date: 1982
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1988/1988.74.13_1a.jpg?itok=Wgof4MQW width="268" height="337" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/marla-6946"]] || Title: **Marla**

Artist: **Irving Dominick** Born: New York, New York 1916 Died: Delray Beach, Florida, 1997

Medium: cut, bent, soldered, and riveted galvanized iron Dimensions: 59 x 35 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (149.9 x 89.5 x 37.3 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.

Accession: 1988.74.13 || Like many folk artists, Irving Dominick applied his vocational skills to imaginative projects. This sculpture is the best surviving example of the whimsy and care Dominick, a roofer and sheet-metal worker, used to make tin representations of his ten-year-old granddaughter. She is complete with loosely crimped hair, a sunny expression, and circle skirt to match her soldered shoes.
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After a lifetime of fabricating gutters, roofs, ductwork for heating and air conditioning systems, and "anything else that could be made from metal," Dominick began making art. Taking a cue from a large tin figure that served as an advertisement on top of his father's sheet metal shop in the Bronx, Dominick began fashioning nonfunctional, imaginative forms.

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