Object Details
- Artist
- Viktor Schreckengost, born Sebring, OH 1906-died Tallahassee, FL 2008
- Sitter
- Adolf Hitler
- Mussolini
- Hirohito
- Exhibition Label
- I've always felt that you can say more with one vivid cartoon than you can with a lot of heavy words. -- Viktor Schreckengost
- Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, 2019
- Luce Center Label
- Viktor Schreckengost created Apocalypse '42 a few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This image of a frightened horse bearing Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito, and a figure of Death across the globe was made to protest the rise of fascism. The drips of bloodred glaze around the horse's head and hooves were an unintentional effect of the firing process.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist
- 1942
- Object number
- 1985.92.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Ceramic
- Crafts
- Medium
- terracotta and glaze with engobe
- Dimensions
- 15 3/8 x 20 3/8 x 8 1/8 in. (39.1 x 51.8 x 20.6 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Renwick Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Allegory\death
- Religion\New Testament\Last Judgment
- Allegory\civic\fascism
- Portrait male\caricature
- Portrait male\caricature
- Portrait male\caricature
- Record ID
- saam_1985.92.1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7603a81cc-7b91-48cd-9822-6f959e6e74e9
