John B. Flannagan

RELIEF FOR "WAX PAINTING"
1922
Wood and paint, 29 7/8 x 17 x 1 1/16 in. (75.9 x 43.2 x 2.7 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
Accession Number: 86.1841

Bedposts
1923-1924
painted pine

Giraffe
Date: c. 1920-1940
Medium: Wood
Dimensions: 23 x 7 1/2 x 6 inches (58.4 x 19 x 15.2 cm)
Accession Number: 1979-12-3
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1979
(PMA)

The Maverick Horse
1924
Chestnut
18’ high
Woodstock, NY

”Everyone on the Maverick was watching. They were fascinated. We loved everything that Flannagan did and we were terribly excited about it. I remember seeing him working; he was working frantically and he was doing the whole thing with an ax. It was the fastest work I’d ever seen. When it was finished he went off and had another drink.” Hannah Small (1903-1992)

Praying Woman
1924-1925
Rosewood
22 x 9 x 10.25

Sisters
1924-1925
Mahogany Relief
20 x 9.75 x 2
(Whitney)

Spiral
1924-1925
Mahogany Relief
21 x 8 x 2
(Whitney)

Beginning I
1924-1925
Mahogany
19” high

Christ
1925
wood
overall: 85.4 x 16.5 x 21.6 cm (33 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
Given in memory of Frederick Zimmermann by his wife, Dorothy Zimmermann
1985.18.1
(NGA)

Acrobats
1926
Mahogany
19.75 x 3.87 x 4

Country Church
1926
Mahogany
19.5 x 7.5 x 6

Head
1926
Gilded Wood
7 x 4.25 x 3.5

Kangaroo
1926
Mahogany
17.37 x 10 x 7

Mother and Son I
1926
Satinwood
30 x 9 x 8

Sunrise
1926
Cocobolo
2.75 x 12.25 x 3

Twins
1926
Rosewood
20.5 x 6.5 x 4.5

Nocturne
1926
Ebony
3.75 x 18.25 x 3
(Fogg)

Cathedral
Date: 1926
Medium: walnut
Dimensions: 20 5/8 x 9 1/2 x 6 in. (52.4 x 24.1 x 15.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Morton D. May
Object Number: 231:1954
(SLAM)

LADY WITH DEATH MASK
(1926)
John B. Flannagan, American, b. Fargo, North Dakota, 1895–1942
Mahogany, 12 1/2 X 7 3/4 X 15 3/8 IN. (31.8 X 19.7 X 38.9 CM.)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number: 66.1918

Title: Elephant
Date: 1926
Medium: plaster
Dimensions Overall: 8 × 4 3/4 × 9 1/2 inches (20.3 × 12.1 × 24.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
Accession Number: 44.268
(DIA)

Chimpanzee
Date: 1928
Medium: Granite
Dimensions Overall: 10 5/8 × 6 7/8 × 8 in. (27 × 17.5 × 20.3 cm)
Credit line: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Accession numberL 31.22
(Whitney)

Elephant
Date: 1929-30
Medium: Sandstone
Dimensions Overall: 13 3/8 × 14 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (34 × 36.8 × 19.1 cm)
Credit line: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Accession number: 31.24
(Whitney)

Elephant
Date: c. 1929-1930
Medium: Granite
Dimensions:
8 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 5 inches (22.2 x 24.1 x 12.7 cm)
Accession Number: 1979-12-1
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1979
(PMA)

Donkey
Date: ca. 1930-1931
On View: Smithsonian American Art Museum 1st Floor North Wing
Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (19.0 x 23.5 x 10.7 cm.)
Mediums: granite
Object Number: 1973.165
(SAAM)

Goat
1930–1931 
Granite
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchase with funds provided by Ruth Carter Johnson

Title: The Cat
Date: 1930
Dimensions: 7/8 in. x 12 3/4 in. (2.22 cm x 32.39 cm)
Medium: granite on wood base
Credit Line:Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1942.5

Title: Monkey and Young
Date: 1932
Dimensions: 15 1/2 in. (39.37 cm)
Medium: granite
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 1938.29

Seated Nude Girl
Date: n.d.
On View Smithsonian American Art Museum Luce Foundation Center 4th Floor 48A
Dimensions: 13 1/8 x 8 x 5 in. (33.3 x 20.3 x 12.7 cm.)
Gift of Gertrude W. Dennis
Mediums: limestone
Object Number: 1992.112
(SAAM)

Triumph of the Egg, 1937
Medium: Granite
Dimensions: 12 x 16 x 11 3/8" (35 x 40.7 x 29.1 cm)
Object number: 296.1938
(MoMA)

Monkey
Date: c. 1938
Medium: Granite
Dimensions: 13 1/2 x 15 x 9 inches (34.3 x 38.1 x 22.9 cm)
Accession Number: 1977-25-1
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1977
(PMA)

Gorilla
1938
stone
overall: 35.4 x 20.6 x 15.2 cm (13 15/16 x 8 1/8 x 6 in.)
Given in memory of Frederick Zimmermann by his wife, Dorothy Zimmermann
1985.18.2
(NGA)

Mother and Child
1910-1942
Stone
2 1/4 x 4 15/16 x 3 1/8 in., 1.6 lb. (5.7 x 12.5 x 7.9 cm, 0.7kg)
Brooklyn Museum, Gift in memory of Mr. and Mrs. H. Lawrence Herring, 1993.211.1

Pelican
Date: 1941
Medium: Stone
Dimensions: 18 1/4 × 9 1/2 × 4 1/2 inches (46.4 × 24.1 × 11.4 cm) With base: 23 3/8 × 12 1/2 × 8 1/8 inches (59.4 × 31.8 × 20.6 cm)
Curatorial Department: American Art* Special Exhibition Galleries, first floor (Dorrance Galleries)
Accession Number: 1978-16-1
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1978
(PMA)

Jonah and the Whale: Rebirth Motif,
1937
Bluestone with wood base
33 1/2 × 11 1/4 × 6 in., 61.5 lb. (85.1 × 28.6 × 15.2 cm, 27.9kg)
Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal 1992.11.12a-b 

KITTEN
Stone
Height: 10 3/4 in.
27.3 cm.
Executed circa 1929-1930
(S)

SEATED NUDE NO. IV
limestone
Height: 12 1/2 in. 31.8 cm.
Width: 6 1/2 in. 16.5 cm.
Executed in 1931.
(S)

BEAR
signed with initials and numbered 1/6
cast stone
Height with base: 8 5/8 in.
22 cm.
(S)

MOTHER AND CHILD
beige cast stone on a 1¾ in. wood base
height: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)
(S)

FEMALE FIGURE
Onyx
(S)

SNAKE
limestone
height: 25 3/8 in. (64.5 cm)
Executed in 1938.
(S)

STANDING CHILD
c1928
brownstone
(S)

Wildcat
Date: ca. 1926–30
Medium: Stone
Dimensions: 20 3/4 x 18 x 7 1/2 in. (52.7 x 45.7 x 19.1 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
Accession Number: 67.187.162
(MET)

Figure of Dignity - Irish Mountain Goat
Date: 1932
Medium: Granite, and cast aluminum, on concrete plinth
Dimensions:53 3/4 x 14 1/8 x 8 3/4 in. (136.5 x 35.9 x 22.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Alexander Shilling Fund, 1941
Accession Number: 41.47
(MET)

THE PROPHET
(c. 1937-1939)
Sandstone, 15 7/8 x 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (40.2 x 25 x 20 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number: 66.1913

THE LAMB
1939
Carved limestone, 11 1/8 x 19 1/2 x 8 7/8 in. (28.2 x 49.6 x 22.6 cm) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number: 66.1916

HEAD
(by 1942)
Stone, 10 1/4 × 7 3/8 × 7 5/8 in. (26 × 18.6 × 19.3 cm) on marble base: 5 × 6 1/2 × 6 1/8 in. (12.7 × 16.5 × 15.5 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number: 66.1917

YOUNG COLT
(c. 1938)
Stone, 10 X 6 3/8 X 2 7/8 IN. (25.5 X 15.9 X 7.3 CM.)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number: 66.1910

Crouching Figure
Date: 1935
Medium: stone
Dimensions: 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. (39.4 x 29.2 x 34.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Morton D. May
Object Number: 232:1954
Current Location: On View, Gallery 334
(SLAM)

These Two
Date: ca. 1935–1936
Medium: Bluestone on wood base
Accession #2002.264
Dimensions: 10 x 5 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches
(High)

Mother and Child
1932-1933
Granite
Gift of Chauncey Stillman
1936.3
Dimensions: W/Base: 45 7/16 in. (115.41 cm) W/O Base: 41 in. (104.14 cm) 46 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (118.11 × 26.67 × 26.67 cm)
(Vassar)

Sleeping Cat
1932-33
granite
6-1/2 x 21-1/2 x 21-1/2 inches
1993:1.8
Gift of Pauline and Robert Forsyth
(Univ. of Oregon)

Title: Frog
Date: 1938
Medium: sandstone
Dimensions Overall: 7 1/4 × 7 5/8 × 9 1/4 inches (18.4 × 19.4 × 23.5 cm)
Credit Line: Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
Accession Number: 43.65
(DIA)

Title: Head of a Girl
Date: ca. 1940
Medium: bronze
Dimensions Overall: 7 1/8 × 5 3/4 × 4 inches (18.1 × 14.6 × 10.2 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
Accession Number: 70.196
(DIA)

Title: Monkey
Date: 1939
Medium: granite
Dimensions Overall: 11 1/2 × 9 1/4 × 6 3/4 inches (29.2 × 23.5 × 17.1 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
Accession Number: 70.195
(DIA)

Title: Lamb Lying on Its Side
Date: ca. 1930
Medium: granite
Dimensions Overall: 3 3/8 × 7 × 4 inches (8.6 × 17.8 × 10.2 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
Accession Number: 70.194
(DIA)

NOT YET
bronze with brown patina
Height without base: 13 in.
33 cm.
(S)

Female Nude bending in Acrobatic Pose
Date: 1920
Medium: Opaque watercolor with traces of dark blue fabricated chalk on black wove paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 inches (37.5 x 25.4 cm)
Accession Number: 1969-26-19
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1969
(PMA)

Overture
1921

Mother and Child
Date: 1923
Medium: Watercolor with graphite on white textured wove paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 21 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches (54.9 x 37.5 cm)
Accession Number: 1947-89-3
Credit Line: Gift of Carl Zigrosser, 1947
(PMA)

VALENTINE: (DIEDRE)
1924
WATERCOLOR ON PAPER
American
9 x 6 inches
1993:1.7
Gift of Pauline and Robert Forsyth
(Univ. of Oregon)

Road in Ireland
Date: 1932
Medium: Transparent and opaque watercolor with traces of graphite on wove paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 11 11/16 inches (33.7 x 29.7 cm)
Accession Number: 1947-89-2
Credit Line: Gift of Carl Zigrosser, 1947
(PMA)

Title: Farm with Animals
Date: between 1930 and 1933
Medium: watercolor over graphite pencil on cream wove paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 20 1/8 inches (33.7 × 51.1 cm)
Credit Line: Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund
Accession Number: 33.12
(DIA)

Nude (1941)
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions16 1/8 x 12 1/2" (40.9 x 31.7 cm)
Credit: Gift of E. Weyhe in honor of Paul J. Sachs
Object number: 413.1963
(MoMA)

Standing Nude from Back
Date: Early 20th century
Medium: Watercolor on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 18 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches (47.6 x 28.6 cm)
Accession Number: 1969-26-15
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1969
(PMA)

Four Female Nudes in a Forest
Date: c. 1924
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: Image: 7 5/8 x 4 15/16 inches (19.3 x 12.6 cm) Sheet: 8 9/16 x 5 1/2 inches (21.7 x 13.9 cm)
Accession Number: 1974-24-112
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1974
(PMA)

Four Donkeys
Date: 1920s or 1930s
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: Image: 4 13/16 x 5 3/8 inches (12.3 x 13.7 cm) Sheet (irregular): 5 7/8 x 6 inches (14.9 x 15.3 cm)
Accession Number: 1974-24-109
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1974
(PMA)

Madonna and Child (1930 Christmas Card)
Xmas / 30 - / O'Flannagain
Date: 1930
Medium: Linocut, printed in brown ink (holiday card)
Dimensions: Image and sheet: 5 1/4 x 3 1/16 inches (13.3 x 7.7 cm) Mount: 6 13/16 x 4 1/2 inches (17.3 x 11.4 cm)
Accession Number: 1974-24-107
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1974
(PMA)

Female Nude on Horseback
Date: 1920s or 1930s
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: Image: 4 x 4 9/16 inches (10.2 x 11.6 cm) Sheet: 5 3/8 x 5 11/16 inches (13.6 x 14.5 cm)
Accession Number: 1974-24-108
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1974
(PMA)

Female Nude Standing on a Beach
Date: c. 1924
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: Image: 4 9/16 x 4 5/8 inches (11.6 x 11.7 cm) Sheet: 7 3/8 x 6 15/16 inches (18.8 x 17.6 cm)
Accession Number: 1974-24-110
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1974
(PMA)

Nude
Date: c. 1923-1924
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: Image: 5 5/16 x 7 5/8 inches (13.5 x 19.3 cm) Sheet (irregular): 6 5/16 x 8 11/16 inches (16.1 x 22.1 cm)
Accession Number: 1974-24-115
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1974
(PMA)

Giraffes
Date: 1920s or 1930s
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions: Image: 9 x 6 1/8 inches (22.9 x 15.6 cm) Sheet: 10 x 6 7/8 inches (25.4 x 17.5 cm)
Accession Number: 1974-24-114
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1974
(PMA)

Goat
Date: c. 1930
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: Image: 5 1/16 x 4 1/16 inches (12.9 x 10.3 cm) Sheet: 6 9/16 x 5 1/8 inches (16.7 x 13 cm)
Accession Number: 1974-24-111
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1974
(PMA)

Two Horses
Date: c. 1930
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: Image: 10 1/16 x 5 3/4 inches (25.6 x 14.6 cm) Sheet: 11 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches (28.9 x 17.1 cm)
Accession Number: 1974-24-113
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1974
(PMA)

Cow and Dog
Date: c. 1930
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: Image: 10 1/16 x 5 13/16 inches (25.6 x 14.8 cm) Sheet: 11 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches (29.8 x 18.4 cm)
Accession Number: 1974-24-116
Credit Line: Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1974
(PMA)

Three Nudes
Date: 1920
Medium: Ink on cardstock
Dimensions: H. 9-7/8, W. 5-3/4 inches (25.1 x 14.6 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number: 1984.433.167
(MET)

Three Nudes
Date: 1920
Medium: Ink and graphite on mat board
Dimensions: 12 x 8 1/4 in. (30.5 x 21 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number: 1984.433.166
(MET)

Nude Female Torsos
c. 1925
brush and black ink on wove paper
sheet: 48.26 × 31.91 cm (19 × 12 9/16 in.)
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, through a gift of Margaret M. Hitchcock)
2016.23.11
(NGA)

Mother and Child
ca. 1930
Pencil
American
8-12 x 6-12 inches
1993:1.6
Gift of Robert J. and Pauline L. Forsyth
(Univ. of Oregon)

Pig
1933
Black crayon drawing
American
8-1/4 x 10-1/8 inches
1982:11.33
Gift of Robert J. and Pauline L. Forsyth
(Univ. of Oregon)

Monkey
Date: 1930s
Medium: Brush and ink on white laid paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 x 5 1/2 inches (17.8 x 14 cm)
Accession Number: 1942-48-1
Credit Line: Gift of R. Sturgis and Marion B. F. Ingersoll, 1942
(PMA)

A Not Too Wild Cat
Date: 1930s
Medium: Brush and ink on white laid paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 x 5 7/8 inches (17.8 x 14.9 cm)
Accession Number: 1942-48-2
Credit Line: Gift of R. Sturgis and Marion B. F. Ingersoll, 1942
(PMA)

Title: Dog Curled Up
Date: n.d.
Dimensions: 10 3/8 in. x 10 in. (26.35 cm x 25.4 cm)
Medium: crayon on wove tissue paper
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 1943.5

Mother and Child
Black crayon
Gift of the Weyhe Gallery
1936.2
Dimensions: Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.88 x 40.64 cm) Sheet: 17 1/8 x 9 3/4 in. (43.5 x 24.77 cm) Sight: 16 1/2 x 9 in. (41.91 x 22.86 cm)
(Vassar)

Female Nude, Seen from Behind
Date: 1938
Medium: Brush and ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 22 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches (57.2 x 36.2 cm)
Accession Number: 1943-36-3
Credit Line: Gift of an anonymous donor, 1943
(PMA)

Nude (1941)
Medium: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 19 x 12 1/2" (48.5 x 31.8 cm)
Credit: Gift of Curt Valentin
Object number: 106.1947
(MoMA)

Giraffes
n.d.
Ink drawing
42.5 x 28.3 cm (16 3/4 x 11 1/8 in.)
The Philip L. Goodwin, B.A. 1907, Collection
1941.82
(Yale Univ. Art Gallery)

Title: Ibex
Date: c1925-1939
Medium: black crayon on japan paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 10 7/8 in. (21.9 x 27.6 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass
Accession Number: 40.154
(DIA)