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Music Stand 1990 20th Century 60 3/4 in. x 24 1/4 in. x 33 in. (154.31 cm x 61.6 cm x 83.82 cm) James N. Cottey (Little Rock, Arkansas, 1939 - ) active Clinton, Arkansas Object Type: Furniture Medium and Support: padauk, macassar ebony Credit Line: Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Purchase, Tabriz Fund. 1993.036.001 Accession Number: 1993.036.001 Comments: Like fellow Arkansan Robyn Horn, James Cottey was educated in state and came to wood art after trying other careers. He cites an exhibition held at the Arkansas Arts Center in 1970, "Objects USA", as a starting point for his fascination with sculpture in wood. He subsequently sought training at the Virginia Commonwealth University, where he encountered the work of 19th-century furniture makers and especially the Art Nouveau style. Like works in that mode, Cottey's highly finished furniture pieces evoke the branching forms of the trees from which they are made. This music stand with seat curves invitingly from the floor to its upper members. The painterly grain of the exotic woods of which it is made enhances the elegant, organic shape of the whole. Both functional and decorative, this is an appropriately lyrical work of visual art in the service of music.

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• contemporary object
• American
• craft

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• Rooted in Innovation
• Craft: Furniture

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• Class:craft
• Class:Decorative Arts:contemporary object

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