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Exhibition installation by artist Dean Snyder, DeCordova Museum "Annual," 2001; Pictured: (left) Joop, sewn and inflated rawhide and turned wood, 96" x 57" x 57", 2001; (background) Sensus, graphite on paper, 5' x 30', 2001; (right) Boogle, sewn and inflated rawhide and turned wood, 60" diameter, 2001. The image illustrates an early body of work in Dean Snyder's career up to roughly 2001, when he produced sewn, biomorphic rawhide sculptures which blend abstraction and figuration. The image shows two sculptures. On the left, a large seemingly inflated turkey baster-like form, Joop, is impaled pincushion style with pieces of lathe-carved wood in the style of bagpipe chanters and suspended like a hot-air balloon; its apparent weightlessness served as a counterpoint to the floor piece on the right, Boogle, which resembles a large tufted cushion pierced at the seams by wooden corks. These works was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Dean Snyder. Copyright held by the artist.

Dean Snyder

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early body of work by artist Dean Snyder: his glossy, organic sewn rawhide sculptures developed prior to the early 2000s. The rawhide works have an air-filled look, appearing variously as abstracted versions of pierced or tufted cushions and half-deflated dirigibles (as in the two foreground pieces here), which Snyder creates through a lengthy process in which he soaked the rawhide, then stretched and shaped, sewed, inflated, dried and finished it. The translucency of the medium in combination with Snyder's surface treatments gives the work a luminous appearance. Because the article is about an artist and the specific works and bodies of work that makes him notable, omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand his significance, which arises in part from this foundational body of work. The rawhide works brought Snyder substantial recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Snyder's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Dean Snyder, and the installation no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.