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Significant Forms: The Changing Character of Western Art

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Artist(s): anonymous
Title: Decoy
Date: c. 1857
Medium: Carved and painted wood
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Museum purchase, 1959.49
Location: On view in Gallery 204

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Exhibitions: A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America
Exhibitions: Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Significant Forms: The Changing Character of Western Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/8/1961 - 10/1/1961
Masterworks from the Collection: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/9/1981 - 6/14/1981
Presence of the Past: Decorative Arts at Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/21/1995 - 3/19/1995
Conversations: A Collection in Dialogue, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/7/2003 - 7/31/2003
Taking Shape: Sculpture at the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/17/2016 - 3/19/2017
A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2019 - 7/31/2020
Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/23/2022 - 7/31/2022

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