Water Boy
Item
Artist
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Title
Water Boy
Date
1930
Medium
bronze
Dimensions
sculpture: 10 1/4 × 6 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (26 × 16.5 × 8.9 cm) including stand: 13 × 8 × 5 3/4 in. (33 × 20.3 × 14.6 cm)
Accession Number
2018.3
Description
Inscribed on bronze: M.V.W. FULLER. Inscribed on bronze: Basky Foundry NY Bronze plaque on wooden base: META WARRICK FULLER / THE WATER BOY / AMERICAN 1938
Inscribed on bronze: M.V.W. FULLER. Inscribed on bronze: Basky Foundry NY
Inscribed on bronze: M.V.W. FULLER. Inscribed on bronze: Basky Foundry NY
Accrual Method
Museum purchase
Provenance
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Freda Kennedy, Queensland, Australia, early 1940s-about 2000; descended to Carl Dalgleish (b. 1933), her nephew, Queensland, Australia, 2000-2017; purchased by an unknown agent, 2017; purchased by Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY, 2017-2018; purchased by the Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, 2018
Credit
https://www.artsbma.org/collection/water-boy/
Location
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL