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"Bobo" clown bookend

Designed by: Russel Wright (American, 1904–1976)
Cast by: Eugene Joseph Rowan (American, 1875–1967)
designed about 1929; made about 1930–39
Object Place: New York, New York

Medium/Technique Nickle-plated metal
Dimensions Overall: 11.4 x 13.3 x 10.8 cm (4 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line The John Axelrod Collection
Accession Number2014.1459
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsMetalwork

ProvenanceBy 1986, owned by Fifty/50 (gallery) New York, New York; March 11, 1986 sold by Fifty/50 to John Axelrod, Boston, Massachusetts; 2008, promised gift of John Axelrod to the Museum; 2014, gift of Axelrod to the MFA. (Accession date: October 29, 2014)