Fish Decoy
| Title | Fish Decoy |
|---|---|
| Artist | Unidentified |
| Date | ca. 1940 20th century |
| Medium | carved and painted wood, painted tinned iron sheet, bent and painted ferrous metal staple, lead weight, and pinhead eyes |
| Classification | Sculpture |
| Holding institution | Smithsonian Open Access |
| Credit line | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alastair B. Martin |
| Rights | Public domain (CC0). Free to use for any purpose. |
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Catalogued as sculpture. See other public-domain works in the same medium, all free to download and reuse.
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Dated to ca. 1940. Explore the wider set of works from the 20th century held in the archive.
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Made available through the Smithsonian Open Access open-access programme, which explicitly places this work in the public domain.
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