SOARING BIRD ON ARROWATTRIBUTED TO ALBERT ZAHN(1864-1953) | Soaring Bird on ArrowAttributed to Albert Zahn(1864-1953)

Ricco Maresca, New York.

Tom Geismar and Harvey Kahn, Spiritually Moving:  A Collection of American Folk Art Sculpture (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998) pl. 38, illus. in color.

Age cracks and losses consistent with age and use. To protect the tail in transport, the tail is removable. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Purchasers may pay for and pick up their purchases from any of our Americana Week sales taking place from January 17-20, 2019, at our York Avenue headquarters until the close of business on Sunday, January 20, 2019. After this time, all property (sold and unsold) will be transferred to our offsite facility, Crozier Fine Art, One Star Ledger Plaza, 69 Court Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102. Once property has been transferred from our York Avenue location, it will not be available for collection at Crozier Fine Arts until Friday, January 25, 2019. Crozier's hours of operation for collection are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday. Please note, certain items of property, including but not limited to jewelry, watches, silver and works on panel will remain at 1334 York Avenue. Invoices and statements will indicate your property's location. For more information regarding collection from our offsite facility, please visit sothebys.com/pickup.
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Albert Zahn was a German-born dairy farmer who, after passing his farm to his son in 1924, built a poured-concrete retirement home in Bailey's Harbor, a small town on a peninsula that juts into Lake Michigan. Inspired by the abundant birdlife around him, Zahn filled his home's inside, facade, and yard with fanciful carvings of them, along with a multitude of angels, animals, and other figures of all sizes, creating an environment that became known as Birds Park.  Examples of his work, all colorfully painted by his wife Louise, are now in the collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago, and Zahn's Birds Park house has been preserved and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.