About the Artwork
Skeleton
between 1883 and 1919
Walter E. Deaves
1854 - 1919
American
Unknown
Wood and paint
Overall: 25 1/8 × 10 × 4 1/4 inches (63.8 × 25.4 × 10.8 cm)
Puppets
Performing Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Paul McPharlin Memorial Fund
54.128
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Provenance
1954-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bell, John. Strings, Hands, Shadows: A Modern Puppet History. Detroit, 2000, p. 28, color ill. p. 28.
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Walter E. Deaves, Skeleton, between 1883 and 1919, wood and paint. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Paul McPharlin Memorial Fund, 54.128.
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