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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Contentment In The Sun (Pelicans)
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Contentment In The Sun (Pelicans)

Artist Heinz Warneke (American, 1895-1983)
CultureAmerican
Date1928
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 18 in. (45.7 cm)
Base: 9 1/4 x 16 3/4 in. (23.5 x 42.5 cm)
InscribedSigned at right on back of base: "H. Warneke".
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number65.34.8
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 115-2 - Wonderstudio
DescriptionBronze sculpture of two pelicans. A unique work. Foundered in Paris, France.

Exhibition History"Large or Small, Bronze or Wood, Painted or Plain: Problems and Solutions in Sculpture", The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, July 9, 1981 - September 13, 1981. Published ReferencesMary Mullen Cunningham, HEINZ WARNEKE (1895-1983): A SCULPTOR FIRST AND LAST (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994), b/w ill. p. 44; No. 94, p. 177.
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
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