Gallery
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Detail on a piece in the Smithsonian Museum collection
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Sperm whale jawbone and teeth; part of the collection in the Scrimshaw Museum in Horta (Azores)
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Detail on a piece in the Horta (Azores) Scrimshaw Museum
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Scrimshaw by Leo J. Meyer
Scrimshaw can also be three dimensional artifacts that are hand carved by the scrims hander. They carved usedful tools such as a jagging wheel.
the jagging wheel is a multi purpose tool used to pierce and trim a pie crust. Corset busks were carved from bone or ivory.
Scrimshaw is being created today still using fossilized ivories, recycled teeth, bones, plastic and more. Some are done by hand and many by laser programed machines. Piano Key Art was created by Roger VanBoxtel where he prepares and recycles antique piano keys and uses them as a background for a scrimmed and then painted subjects. This new combination of art forms merges scrimshaw and painting on a recycled piano keys that are providing an uneven and challenging background.. His work has been purchased and shown in museums. Plastic piano keys were introduced around 1928 but he does not recycle them as they do not offer the same resistance, grain or value of the ivory keys.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)