Classroom+with+Three+Figures

Date: 1979, 1984-1987
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1989/1989.92A-L_1a.jpg?itok=CRDeOnD9 width="317" height="246" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/classroom-with-three-figures-31991"]] || Title: **Classroom with Three Figures**

Artist: **Lavern Kelley** Born: Oneonta, New York 1928 Died: Cooperstown, New York 1998

Medium: white pine, plywood, brass, and plastic Dimensions: overall: 36 3/8 x 30 1/8 x 45 in. (92.4 x 76.5 x 114.3 cm.) base: 25 Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.

Accession: 1989.92A-L || Sharing the sentiment of cartoonist Bill Watterson that, "people who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children," Lavern Kelley's piece recalls the perceived captivity of the grade school experience.
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"Whatever I do, I want it to be my own thoughts and methods, not somebody else’s." —Lavern Kelley

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