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Carol Anthony (American/New York, b. 1943), "Horse & Rider, Walter and His Chocolate: My Marlborough Man", 1970, papier mâché, fabric, boots, and mixed media, unsigned, h. 47 in., w. 50 in., d. 17 3/4 in. Provenance: Property of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund. Note: Carol Anthony was born in New York City to an artistic family. Her father served as Creative Vice President of the Young & Rubicam advertising agency and was a cartoon contributor to the New Yorker. Her mother was a professional singer, and Anthony and her identical twin sister studied art from a young age. Anthony attended boarding school in Massachusetts and the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a degree in 1966. The death of her mother when she was a teenager and her father when she was in her mid-twenties affected the artist greatly and influenced much of her later creative output. In the early 1970s, Anthony became nationally famous for her papier-mâché sculptures of cartoon-like figures, seen as a tribute to her father. One such sculpture resides in the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. In the similar work offered here, a papier-mâché cowboy rides his trusty stead in a humorous play on media and proportion. By 1978, Anthony had stopped sculpting in order to focus on paintings of still lifes and simple scenes that serve as “inner landscapes.” Ref.: “Carol Anthony.” McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM. www.mclarryfineart.com. Accessed Aug. 16, 2016.