Object Details
- Artist
- Renée Stout, born Junction City, KS 1958
- Exhibition Label
- The Colonel’s Cabinet is a narrative of exploration and memory that traces the life of one Colonel Frank. Like the gentleman travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who created “cabinets of curiosities” filled with artifacts of distant people and places, the fictitious Colonel Frank collected small treasures to remind himself of where he had been and individuals he had met. An invented persona based on Stout’s father, who, she said, brought the world to her shy and introspective mother, the colonel also reflects Stout’s own search for a personal history.
- African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Right Era, and Beyond, 2012
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- Copyright
- © 1994, Renee Stout
- 1991-1994
- Object number
- 1994.45.1A-MMM
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture-Assemblage
- Medium
- mixed media: carpet, chair, painting, and cabinet with found and handmade objects
- Dimensions
- overall: 67 1/2 x 60 x 50 1/2 in. (171.5 x 152.4 x 128.3 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Object\art object\sculpture
- Object\furniture\chair
- Object\written matter\book
- Object\furniture\cabinet
- Object\other\container
- Object\musical instrument\guitar
- Object\written matter\map
- Object\art object\photograph
- Object\weapon\dagger
- Record ID
- saam_1994.45.1A-MMM
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk79089f144-8888-4c77-a9ea-8022dbde8c94
