All Good Dogs
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Object Details
- Date
- 1987
- Artist
- Raya Bodnarchuk, born New York City 1947-died Rockville, MD 2021
- Luce Center Label
- Raya Bodnarchuk emphasizes that she is more interested in animals as forms than as personalities. As the title of this piece implies, All Good Dogs is not a portrait of any particular dog, but represents all dogs. The animal is a "good" dog because it sits calmly, perhaps after being instructed to do so.
- Luce Object Quote
- "The shapes I like just happen to fit together in animal arrangements." Raya Bodnarchuk, quoted in Montgomery Journal, November 18, 1983
- Topic
- Animal\dog
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, W310
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Anonymous gift in memory of Walter M. and Nancy A. Hall and Betty Hall McLane
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- 1987.79
- Type
- Sculpture
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- carved white pine
- Dimensions
- 34 1/4 x 19 x 17 7/8 in. (87.1 x 48.3 x 45.3 cm.)
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- saam_1987.79