Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009

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Lap steel guitar (New Yorker model)

1947
Valco (National brand)
Design attributed to Victor Smith
Length 73.2 cm, diameter 17.8 cm (Length 28 13/16 in., diameter 7 in.)
Wood, plastic

Classification: Musical instruments

Object Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Accession number: 2009.2223

Location: John Axelrod Gallery (American Modern: The 1920s and 30s)

Provenance/Ownership History: Around 1990, sold at a guitar show, Dallas, Texas, to Brian Fischer, Dover, New Hampshire; 2009, gift of Fischer to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 25, 2009)

Gift of Brian Fischer