Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- The Nantucket Yacht Club used these two penguins as fence post ornaments. Augustus Wilson carved the wooden birds using simple tools, including a Boy Scout knife from the five-and-dime store, a handsaw, a hatchet, and a chisel to shape the bodies and outline the wings.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Augustus Aaron Wilson, born Mt. Desert Island, ME 1864-died Portland, ME 1950
- Date
- ca. 1900-1940
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- Medium
- carved and painted wood with metal
- Dimensions
- 19 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (49.5 x 24.7 x 26.0 cm.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Folk Art
