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LiveFeb 11, 2017 - Feb 13, 2017
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American Minstrel Figure of "Jim Crow" or "Daddy Rice" the "Dancing Negro" theatrical character, sometimes appearing outside theatres or cigar shops (which were often in the same building), carved and polychromed wood, circa 1870, on custom plinth, retaining the original chain at back for attachment to building. He is depicted in typical stance, left hand on waistcoat pocket, right hand across his hat brim in preparation to bow. Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20, 1808 - September 19, 1860), known professionally as Daddy Rice, was a white American performer and playwright who performed blackface and used African-American vernacular speech, song, and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time. He is considered the "father of American minstrelsy". His act drew on aspects of African American culture and popularized them with a national, and later international, audience, Rice's "Jim Crow" persona was an ethnic depiction in accordance with contemporary ideas of African-Americans and their culture. The character was based on a folk trickster named Jim Crow that was long popular among black slaves. Rice also adapted and popularized a traditional slave song called "Jump Jim Crow". The character dressed in rags, battered hat and torn shoes. Rice blackened his face and hands and impersonated a very nimble and irreverently witty African American field hand who sang, "Turn about and wheel about, and do just so. And every time I turn about I Jump Jim Crow." Rice's greatest prominence came in the 1830s, before the rise of full-blown blackface minstrel shows. In the latter half of the 19th century a wooden statue of Rice in his 'Jim Crow' character stood in various New York locations, including outside the Chatham Garden Theatre. Prior to at least 1871 it had stood on Broadway outside 'a well-known resort of actors and showmen'. According to an article in the New York Times it had apparently been carved by Rice himself in 1833, although a different account in the same paper says it had been carved by a celebrated figurehead carver called Weeden, and yet another article attributes it to Rice's former employer 'Charley' Dodge. 52" x 12" x 12" (70" overall). Very good condition. PROVENANCE: Elie & Viola Nadelman Collection, Museum of Folk and Peasant Arts, Riverdale, NY New York Historical Society, New York City Steve Miller, NY, 1990 George & Hope Wick Collection, San Diego, CA LITERATURE: Robert Bishop, "American Folk Sculpture", NY, 1984. fig. 634 Jean Lipman, "Folk Art in Wood, Metal & Stone", NY, 1948, fig. 70 Christine I. Oaklander, "Elie and Viola Nadelman, Pioneers in Folk Art Collecting", Folk Art Magazine, Fall 1992, pp. 55. note 31. A. W. Pendergast and W. Porter Ware, "Cigar Store Figures", Chicago, 1953, P. 45 Index of American Design, "Figure of a Black Man", Mina Lowry Watercolor, ca. 1936. National Gallery of Art, Washington EXHIBITED: Washington, DC, The Corcoran Gallery, "The Black Image in American Art 1750-1930", January 13 - March 26, 1990 Brooklyn, NY, The Brooklyn Museum, April 2 - June 25, 1990
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