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    • Large Leg Splint Sculpture

    Ray and Charles used the three-dimensional form of the leg splint to bring her two-dimensional sketch to life. The striking black form shares a visual language with the Eameses’ logo design for their company at this time, the Molded Plywood Division of the Evans Products Company. This piece, cut with a scroll saw and then stained black, is one of only three known splint sculptures. The design suggests it was meant to be suspended, like a mobile.

    Artifact
    2019.2.34
    Materials
    Birch plywood, aniline dye
    Artist / Designer
    Ray Eames
    Dimensions
    38 ⁹⁄₁₆ × 8 ¹⁄₁₆ × 4 ¹⁵⁄₁₆ in
    98 × 20.5 × 12.5 cm
    Date
    1943