Collection Highlights
Dragonfly Table lamp
c. 1900-1906
N84.113
Glass, bronze
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
"Why Don't You Speak For Yourself John?" (replica)
Title
"Why Don't You Speak For Yourself John?" (replica)
Date
1974
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
Overall: 11 x 9 x 7 in. (27.9 x 22.9 x 17.8 cm)
Description
Genre figure
Credit Line
Gift from Alva Studios, Inc.
Object Number
INV.266
Bibliography
"National Academy of Design," Daily Evening Transcript, Boston, Nov. 29, 1884, p. 6.
Barck, Dorothy, "Rogers Group in the Museum of the New-York Historical Society," New-York Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. XVI, No. 3, October, 1932, p. 80.
Smith, Mrs. and Mrs. Chetwood, Rogers Groups: Thought and Wrought by John Rogers, Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed & Co., 1934, pp. 92-3.
Wallace, David H., John Rogers, The People's Sculptor, Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967, pp. 109, 251-2, 294.
Bleier, Paul and Meta, John Rogers Statuary, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001, pp. 190-1.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
