Black+Hawk+Horse+Weathervane

Date: 1871-1872
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1986/1986.65.358_1a.jpg?itok=-C96BWax width="281" height="186" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/black-hawk-horse-weathervane-pattern-31613"]] || Title: **Black Hawk Horse Weathervane Pattern**

Artist: **Attributed to Henry Leach** Born: New Milford, Pennsylvania 1809 Died: Montrose, Pennsylvania 1885

Medium: carved and painted wood Dimensions: 22 x 34 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. (55.9 x 87.6 x 9.3 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

Accession: 1986.65.358 || Henry Leach probably based this design on an early lithographic portrait of the racehorse Black Hawk, a popular winner of the 1840s and subject of many weather vanes. The manufacturer L. W. Cushing and Sons used this wooden pattern to create a hollow iron mold, from which many copper vanes could be produced.
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