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Untitled (Pirate)
2007 (cast in 2009)
The modern conception of the seafaring pirate originates with two fictional characters: Long John Silver from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island (1883), who had a peg-leg and a parrot perched on his shoulder, and Captain Hook from J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan (1911), who has had a metal hook in place of his right hand. Peter Coffin's pop-culture pirate is endowed with multiples of these attributes—two parrots, two hooks for hands, and two peg-legs—as well as two eye patches. He embodies a modern antihero, defying authority, living apart from society, and freely roaming the world. Indestructible and steadfast, this blind and injured buccaneer is as enduring as the pirate icon itself.
- Artist
- Peter Coffin (b. 1972)
- Title
- Untitled (Pirate)
- Date
- 2007 (cast in 2009)
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Cast aluminum on painted concrete base
- Dimensions
- 156 x 67 x 67 in. (396.2 x 170.2 x 170.2 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of William and Maria Bell
- Accession Number
- 2016.61