Eye Level Blog – Antiques Roadshow at American Art

In this post on the Eye Level blog, former Smithsonian American Art Museum intern Hayley Plack tells how she helped make her uncle Reginald Case’s sculpture one of the SAAM’s treasured works. An excerpt:

“I had known my Uncle Reg was a talented artist, but it wasn’t until I began my internship at American Art this summer that I discovered he had two pieces in the museum’s permanent collection—Statue of Liberty and Survivor. I have many memories of my great uncle, Reginald Case. As a child, I was amazed by the work that crowded his upstate New York house. There was that six-foot-high Barbie Wedding Cake, a mixed-media piece that highlighted the doll on a pedestal of feathers, beads, glitter, and sequins. I still look at his art with similar wonder and admiration, so I was excited to see it at American Art.

During my internship, I spoke with a curator, registration assistant, and conservator who had experience with my uncle’s work. Curator George Gurney met Reg and my grandfather (Reg’s brother) at my uncle’s artwork storage unit in Rhinebeck, New York, in 2008. George eventually chose the Statue of Liberty as a good fit for the American Art Museum’s collection.”

Click here to read the complete post.

Image in the post is of the work that Plack describes, from her post.