Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- Steve Ashby created this sculpture a few years after his wife died. The woman’s frenzied expression and wild hair suggest that he associated pregnancy with anger and fear, and may relate to the fact that he and his wife did not have any children of their own.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Steve Ashby, born Delaplane, VA 1904-died Delaplane, VA 1980
- Date
- ca. late 1960s
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- Medium
- painted and carved wood with cloth
- Dimensions
- 25 3/4 x 13 1/4 x 8 in. (65.4 x 33.5 x 20.3 cm.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Folk Art
