Javier Pereira, "The Oldest Man in the World" discovered by Ripley's Believe It or Not in 1955

Abram Belskie, Jr., American, 1907 - 1988

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1956

Plaster

Overall: 7 1/2 × 9 × 17 3/4 in. (19.1 × 22.9 × 45.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Douglas Storer

S.989.20

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed on front: JAVIER PEREIRA

Provenance

Hazel Anderson Storer (1909-2005) [wife of Douglas F. Storer (1899-1985), Class of 1920, a producer of Ripley's Believe It or Not]; given to present collection, 1989.

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