Shepherd

1931

Robert Edmond Jones , Artist Remo Bufano , Maker

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About the Artwork

Title Shepherd

Artwork Date 1931

Makers Robert Edmond Jones (Artist) American Remo Bufano (Maker) American, 1894-1948

Medium Papier-mâché and cloth

Dimensions Overall: 121 × 23 1/2 × 10 inches (307.3 × 59.7 × 25.4 cm)

Classification Puppets

Department Performing Arts

Credit Gift of Cedric and Lee Head in memory of Mabel Kingsland Head

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 54.507

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Cedric and Lee Head;
1954-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bell, John. Strings, Hands, Shadows: A Modern Puppet History. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, ca. 2000, (color ill.) p. 63.

Bulletin of the DIA 35, no. 1 (1955-56): p. 24.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Robert Edmond Jones; Remo Bufano, Shepherd, 1931, papier-mâché and cloth. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Cedric and Lee Head in memory of Mabel Kingsland Head, 54.507.

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