The boxer.

Description

Title: The boxer.
Alternative Title: Wild Cat.
Creator: Bolling, Leslie Garland, 1898- artist
Contributor: Bolling, Leslie Garland, 1898- artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1930s]
Publication Place: S.l
Abstract: A full-length standing figure of a boxer carved in wood by Leslie Garland Bolling. He incised the title "The Boxer" in the front edge of the surface on which the figure stands, and "Sept. 13th 33" and "LGBolling" on the back edge. A metal plate attached to the front of the base gives the title as "Wild Cat," the ring name of an unidentified boxer in Richmond, Virginia, who posed for Bolling.
Description: Gift of Carl Van Vechten.
Leslie Garland Bolling (1898-1955), African American sculptor living and working in Richmond, Virginia.
Title from sculpture and plate on base of sculpture.
Extent: 1 sculpture :
38 x 16.5 x 20 cm
wood ;
Language: No linguistic content; Not applicable

Format: three dimensional object
Genre: Sculpture (visual work)--Virginia--20th century
Resource Type: Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
Subject (Name): Bolling, Leslie Garland, 1898- artist
Subject (Topic): African American boxers--Portraits
African American sculptors--Virginia
African Americans in art
Sculptors--Virginia

Access: Public
Rights: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; permission of the Trust is required to publish Van Vechten photographs in any format. To contact the Van Vechten Trust, email vanvechtentrust@gmail.com.
Citation: Leslie Garland Bolling, The Boxer. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.