Doll furniture: desk w/key
Collections:
Classification:
Medium:
wood, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 14 x 19 in. ( 20.3 x 35.6 x 48.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1391
Marks:
Nadelman collection sticker: "T / 43 / Amer" (the "T" is some sort of character and not a clear "T")
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
13720
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Soldier
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1840-1870
Medium:
Wood, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 2 x 2 1/2 in. ( 25.4 x 5.1 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Wooden toy soldier; painted black cylindrical hat with red plume, blue jacket, red pants, black shoes, green disc base; carrying drum.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.501
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
13685
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Doll furniture: chest w/tray and 4 compartments
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1860-1900
Medium:
Wood, paper, leather, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 11 7/8 x 7 1/4 in. ( 22.9 x 30.2 x 18.4 cm )
Description:
Rectangular wooden doll trunk with domed top, decorated with geometric designed paper and brass tacks; handles at sides, lock at front, wheels on bottom; interior fitted with compartment in lid and compartmentalized lift-out tray. Interior decorated with affixed printed pastoral and portrait images.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
INV.8782
Marks:
lithographed: on image affixed to interior of box: "ON THE/HUDSON/U.S."
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
13664
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Soldier
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1840-1870
Medium:
Wood, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 2 in. ( 25.4 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Wood toy soldier; painted black cylindrical hat with red plume, blue jacket, red pants, black shoes, green disc base; carrying gun and sword.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.509
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
13629
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Soldier
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1840-1870
Medium:
Wood, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 2 in. ( 22.9 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Wood toy soldier; painted black cylindrical hat, blue jacket, red pants, black shoe, green disc base; carrying gun and sword.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.506
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
13628
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Doll
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1830-1860
Medium:
Papier-mâché, textile, wood, leather, paper, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 in. ( 24.1 x 8.9 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Lady doll with papier-mâché shoulder head, molded black hair, and molded and painted facial features; stuffed kid body with divided arm composed of stuffed kid upper arm and painted wood lower arm and divided leg composed of stuffed kid upper leg and painted wood lower leg (red paper bands conceal joints); cream (discolored) net dress with pink cotton lining, organdy pantalettes with lace trim, and red painted shoes.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1212
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
13572
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Woodcarving (parrot on green base)
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1850-1890
Medium:
Wood, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 3/8 in. ( 15.9 x 8.9 x 6 cm )
Description:
Carved wooden parrot with folded wings and straight, cylindrical legs; body with flecks of black, red and yellow paint; wings with blue, red and yellow vertical bands; green base.
Credit Line:
Gift of Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
INV.7975
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Bibliography:
Black, Mary C., "Make believe and make do: American children's toys," Antiques, December 1962, pp. 620-623.
Christensen, Erwin O., Early American Wood Carving. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1952, pp. 104-105.
Christensen, Erwin O., The Index of American Design. New York, Macmillan, 1950, pp. 135-137.
Flower, Milton E., "Wilhelm Schimmel and Aaron Mountz wood carvers," [exhibition catalog], Williamsburg, Va. : Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, 1965.
Lichten, Frances, Folk Art of Rural Pennsylvania. New York, C. Scribner's sons; London, C. Scribner's sons, ltd., 1946. p. 115.
Robacker, Earl F., "Pennsylvania German Wood Carvings," Antiques, June 1946, pp. 369-371.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
13541
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Doll
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1830-1860
Medium:
Papier mâché, textile, wood, leather, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 x 10 x 3 1/2 in. ( 35.6 x 25.4 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Doll with papier mâché shoulder head, molded black hair with corkscrew curls at back of head, molded and painted facial features including brown pupilless eyes and closed mouth; stuffed kid body with divided arm composed of stuffed kid upper arm and wooden lower arm, with crudely carved fingers, divided leg composed of stuffed kid upper leg and wooden lower leg, with brown painted shoes; cotton dress with lace sleeves and tucked skirt, with purple silk sash, over scalloped and embroidered petticoat, shorter petticoat, and knickers with lace trim.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1213
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
13523
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paper doll
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1850-1860
Medium:
Paper, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/8 x 6 1/4 in. ( 15.6 x 15.9 cm )
Description:
Painted paper cut-out figure: woman seated in front of sewing table with small girl seated on low stool at her feet.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
INV.10267jj
Marks:
written: in ink on reverse: "Caroline. / Little May."
Gallery Label:
Portraying mostly women and children as they perform domestic tasks (sewing, cooking, harvesting, or teaching/learning) and leisure activities (reading, writing letters, painting, or playing music), these richly decorated, hand-painted paper dolls present a broad view of mid-nineteenth-century daily life. The mass commercial appeal of paper dolls arose around 1850 when these dolls began to appear in popular periodicals; however, homemade, hand-painted dolls had been circulating long beforehand. These dolls belong to a larger set of 85 figures, which were crafted around 1855 for a young girl in the Canadian town of Drummondville outside Quebec City, as indicated by an inscription on the reverse of one doll in the set and by a November 1924 article in Harper's Magazine featuring a descendent of the original owner, Ms. Lenox E. Chase. While it is unclear who painted these dolls, and while they may have been produced over an extended period of time given variations in the stock and coloration of the paper, all of the dolls seem to have been crafted by the same artist and each one includes its own unique name, written on the verso by the same hand each time. Genealogical records suggest that the dolls originally belonged to the Sutherland family, a Canadian family of British descent who had arrived in the English-Canadian town of Drummondville by the 1840's, and the dolls eventually would have been passed down to Ms. Chase, from whom Elie Nadelman likely acquired the set for his Museum of Folk and Peasant Arts.
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
13476
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Doll with Quaker costume
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1870-1900
Medium:
Ceramic, textile, leather, hair
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/4 x 7 x 1 3/4 in. ( 22.2 x 17.8 x 4.4 cm )
Description:
Doll with bisque swivel head, yellow hair, brown glass eyes, closed mouth, and pink tinted cheeks; stuffed cloth body with leather booties stitched to feet; brown Quaker-style dress over plain muslin petticoat and knickers, light brown fringed shawl, grey drawstring handbag, and black bonnet.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1229
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
13466
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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