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Donor |
Museum Purchase |
Description |
A print of a woman holding a monkey with a purple background, surrounded by multiple large colorful borders in a gold plated frame. The woman is facing the right with both hands holding a small monkey up to face level. The monkey is holding a small round box with it's lid open, presenting it to the woman. The woman is wearing clothes loosely inspired by South American culture with a colorful turban of multiple checkered patterns and ribbons. She is wearing a yellow shrug and red necklace with nothing else underneath, showing off her chest. She is also wearing a light orange and blue checkered skirt with foliage around her waist. There are two cylindrical gold tubes through her ear as an earring. The border along the edges is about 3 in. wide and contains many colors in Wiinblad's typical design. Wiinblad's signature is in the bottom left corner. |
Dimensions |
H-0.75 W-19.75 L-24.75 inches |
Made By |
Wiinblad, Bjørn |
Owned By |
Zaidin, Alice/Zaidin, Earle |
Used By |
Zaidin, Alice/Zaidin, Earle |
Material |
paper |
Associated People |
Zaidin, Alice Zaidin, Earle Rosenberg, Jason Wiinblad, Bjørn |
Search Terms |
Zaidin, Alice Zaidin, Earle Rosenberg, Jason Wiinblad, Bjørn Wiinblad Art Monkey Woman |
Provenance |
This collection of work by Danish artist Bjørn Wiinblad was gathered by Earle Zaidin of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Through his professional career, he became personal friends with Wiinblad, who then created several unique one-of-a-kind pieces for Earle and his wife Alice, including porcelains and Christmas cards. The other pieces were collected by the Zaidins. Earle Warren Zaidins was born May 25, 1925 in Wisconsin and died January 17, 2001. He was an entertainment lawyer at a booking agency in New York called Shaw Artists throughout the 1950s and 1960s where he worked with Lenny Bruce, Althea Gibson and Billie Holiday, among others. He later transitioned into being a local judge and administrative law judge and mediator for New York, Westchester, and other regional Counties Boards of Health and Education. He served in the Marines at Okinawa, Japan before moving to New York, where he remained until his death. Text from the exhibition Danish Modern: Design for Living, created by The Danish Immigrant Museum in 2013: "Many Danish designers sought to leave tradition behind - Bjørn Wiinblad succeeded better than most. His designs create a world populated with round, smiling, timeless figures. Though the figures and forms are vaguely 19th-century in style, the colors and exuberance of Wiinblad's work make them uniquely his own. As a craftsman, Wiinblad excelled as a ceramic artist; his artistic vision extended to graphic art and textile design, as well." (Wiinblad, 1918-2006) |
Date Received by Museum |
10/13/2021 |
Images |
355\2021009037.JPG |
Accession number |
2021.009 |
Object Identification Number |
2021.009.037 |