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ArtistAmerican, born 1932
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Rocker
Date1987/2017
MediumHawthorne wood, oak, braided and loose raw unspun silk, linen thread, brass sheet tubing, surgical filtering fabric, animal teeth, gold leaf, red golden pheasant feathers, ceramic piece and carved bone element
DimensionsOverall: 18 × 14 1/4 × 4 in. (45.7 × 36.2 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number2025.27
Not on view

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Object Type
Provenance[Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, 1987]; Private collection; The artist; given to MFAH, 2025.
Exhibition History"Anchors In Time: Dominic Di Mare," Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, 2018.

Published References Mayfield, Signe. Anchors In Time: Dominic Di Mare. San Francisco: Museum of Craft and Design, 2018, p. 80. (Titled Summer Vessel)
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1998
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1976
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1982
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1976
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1910–1925
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44.459
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Unknown American
1910–1912
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95.529
Ensemble
Norman Hartnell
1950
Silk, velvet, chiffon, and pheasant feathers
86.704.A,.B
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Carina Shoshtary
2023
PLA (bio plastic), barnacles, shells, vintage sweet-water pearls, animal teeth, silver, quartz crystals, found plastic, lacquer, and thread
2023.361.A,.B
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Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
1880–1890
Giant clam shell, turtle shell, stone, animal teeth, glass, and plant fiber
88.1
Chief Swordbearer's Headdress
Unknown African
1825–1840
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97.908
Dominic Di Mare