Artist
Tony Duggan-Smith
(born 1953)
Archtop Guitar, quart size (for Arthur Lismer)
Datebetween 2015 and 2017
Medium/MaterialsGuitar: Sitka spruce (top); Ontario silver maple (back and sides); koa wood (binding, decorative elements); Ontario maple (neck and peg block); blonde Ghanaian ebony (fingerboard, tailpiece and bridge); steel (tailpiece hinge); cow bone (nut); spalted maple (peghead veneer); Honduran mahogany (neck and heel blocks); spalted maple veneer, birch bark strip (extension); 19th century spoon (cow horn), abalone (Haliotis Fulgens), watercolour pencil (decorative elements); Camac harp levers; Gotoh 510 tuning machines
Case: carbon fibre, Kevlar, birchbark, leather, steel hinges, velvet lining
DimensionsWeight: 5.5 lb.
Credit LineCommissioned for the Group of Seven Guitar Project
Object Number2017.13
DepartmentPERMANENT COLLECTION