Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2010
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of the Americas: July 2009–June 2010
"Torpedo" pedal car
designed about 1937–49
Designed by Viktor Schreckengost
Manufactured by Murray Ohio Company
Length: 94 cm (37 in.)
Steel, chrome, enamel
Classification: (not assigned)
Object Place: Cleveland, Ohio
Accession number: 2010.29
Location: John Axelrod Gallery (American Modern: The 1920s and 30s)
Provenance/Ownership History: Early history unknown; by 2010, Modernism Gallery, Coral Gables, FL; 2010, purchased from Modernism Gallery by the MFA. (Accession Date: February 24, 2010)
Museum purchase with funds donated by J. Parker Prindle in the name of Carson Edwin Prindle