Life-sized mannequin of Percy Grainger, made for displays in the Grainger Museum, and letter from Percy Grainger to Kathleen Rogers regarding mannequin construction, October 1951

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Title

Life-sized mannequin of Percy Grainger, made for displays in the Grainger Museum, and letter from Percy Grainger to Kathleen Rogers regarding mannequin construction, October 1951

Description

Display mannequin, created from tape, calico, cardboard, cotton, gauze, Plaster of Paris, straw, thread. Size: 170 x 60. Letter from Grainger Museum Archive.
This mannequin was made by Kathleen and William Rogers, at Arch Hill Studio, Albany Post Road, Briarcliff Manor, New York, in the early 1950s. Percy Grainger ordered a number of mannequins, including himself, his wife Ella, and his mother Rose, from the Rogers, desiring 'sympathetic' representations for use in displays in his Grainger Museum in Melbourne.

Source

Grainger Museum Collection

Date

1952

Identifier

01.3542
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