LOT 745
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Lot 745
HIRAM IVAN HICKMAN(American 1847-1933)
Adam & Eve- circa 1900
Carved and polychrome pine
Verso of pine case lightly inscribed H. Hickman
Height 32 inches, width 19.25 inches (including integral wood display case)
Estimate:
$3,000 - 5,000
€ 2,200 - 3,700
Provenance:
By descent through the family to the present owner, the great-great grandson of Hiram Hickman.
The figures of Adam and Eve carved of pine in full round, gessoed in some areas and painted with flesh-tone oil paint, the slightly tapering and footless legs set into the integral base. The heads with horsehair wigs, painted and with low carved relief features, their loins covered with a garland made of green painted leaf-shaped muslin. The snake, which wraps around the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, is comprised of painted tape wrapped around a fiber rope and the apples are carved of wood, painted red and suspended from the inset branches by fine wire. The front section of the floor of the wood case inlaid with cross section cut log slabs, and the back of case lined in white (now faded) muslin, no doubt originally providing a bright contrasting background. Hiram Ivan Hickman was born in Indiana on April 30, 1847 and raised in the South Central Iowa town of Murray, Clarke County. He married Mary Ellen Pearson (1845-1912) in Madison County, Iowa on October 29, 1872 and together they had six children. According to the family, Hiram was a farmer and carpenter, and while the offered lot and the following lot are the only two sculptures which remained in the family, it is understood that there were other such sculptures produced by Hickman and which are still in existence, held privately by individuals in and around the area of Osceola, Iowa.
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