Dragon House

Artist John Buck (born Ames, Iowa, 1946)

Date1981

MediumPainted, canvas, wood, and chalk

DimensionsOverall: 83 1/2 × 110 3/4 × 12 in. (212.1 × 281.3 × 30.5 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePartial gift and purchase from Taco Bell Corporation

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house

Object number1999.18.1 A-M

DescriptionFree hanging canvas house-shaped painted in black with white chalk drawings of skeleton, doorway, chair, car, hat, man on horse. 3-D human form with constructed swirl and geometric form are assembled and display in front on canvas. A: Painting on canvas; B: black painted wood headless figure decorated with thin silver lines which look like chalk from a distance; C: (black wood) frame-like geometric form; D: (black wood) solid geometric form; E: (black wood) graduated/step-like base; F: (black wood) post for figure's left heel; G: (black wood) post for figure's right heel; H: (black wood) post; I: (black wood) post; J: (black wood) post; K: (black wood) post: L: (black wood) post; M: (black wood) serpinting object (in the shape of a backwards cursive capital "L" decorated with silver chalk-like drawings of hatchet and snake

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