American+Flag+Whirligig

Date: mid 20th century
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Artist: **Unidentified**

Medium: painted iron and carved and painted wood Dimensions: 28 1/4 x 38 1/2 x 28 1/4 in. (71.8 x 97.8 x 71.8 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

Accession: 1986.65.371 || This whirligig, which comes from upstate New York, is simple, bold, and patriotic. As its painted blades spin, their colors blend into concentric circles of red, white, and blue, echoing the colors of Old Glory painted on the tail.
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SAAM Collections Page http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=4753
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