William Hunt Diederich
Diana the Huntress with Greyhound Weather Vane
1929-1939
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William Hunt Diederich
Diana the Huntress with Greyhound Weather Vane
1929-1939
Physical Qualities
Wrought iron, 49 3/4 x 53 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (126.4 x 135.3 x 9.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Diana D. Blake, Baltimore
Object Number
1998.268
In this spinning weather vane, Diana, the mythological goddess of the hunt, strides through the air accompanied by her hunting dog. William Hunt Diederich combined past and present by merging early 20th-century Art Deco designs of sweeping curves with allegorical figures in the making of his decorative functional objects. Diederich’s globe-trotting career included an early exhibition in Baltimore, at the National Sculpture Society, in 1908. Diederich’s daughter Diana, a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, donated this weather vane to the BMA.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998, from Diana D. Blake, by gift; from her father, the artist
Artist
William Hunt Diederich
1883–1952
American, born Hungary, 1884-1953
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