Artist Name:
Ferdinand Cooper
Nationality & Life Dates:
American, born ca. 1911
Title:
Untitled (Cabinet)
Date:
1940s-1990s
Medium:
Carved wood, cut metal, wire, plastic
Dimensions:
23 x 13 1/2 x 15 inches
Credit Line:
Purchase through prior acquisitions from the Members Guild, Charles Loridans, and Folk Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Number:
2000.13 a-ff
Currently Not on View
Returning from World War II with psychological trauma, Ferdinand Cooper retired to a tiny shack he built on the property where he was raised in Sanford, Florida. He covered his environment inside and out with charm-like objects and forms. The surface of this cabinet is an assemblage of wood and tin cutouts on which images of clocks, an eye, animals, crosses, a keyhole, letters, numbers, eyeglasses, and money are visible. The interior is filled, as if it were a medicine cabinet, with a carved shaving brush, toothbrushes, dentures—and a gun.