Electric Guitar
Description: Solid wood body carved with slight waist and truncated shoulders forming a horn-like projections at top, flat back and front, on back red plexiglas rectangle at neck and trapezoidal red plexiglas at lower left covering makers mark, edges outlined in red and black; insets routed out for stringholder, nut, two pickups, and neck; red plexiglas pick guard; four control knobs, socket and a toggle switch at lower right; strap button at top (behind neck) and bottom of body; fingerboard with 22 brass frets and red and black position markers; peg block with machine pegs and front covered with red and black plexiglas; trapezoidal wood case.
Artwork Details
- Title: Electric Guitar
- Maker: Efrain Vega
- Date: 1992
- Geography: New York, New York, United States
- Culture: Puerto Rican
- Medium: Oak, chestnut, plexiglas, steel
- Dimensions: 39 × 13 × 1 5/8 in. (99.1 × 33 × 4.1 cm)
- Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
- Credit Line: Gift of Efrain Vega, 2004
- Object Number: 2004.395.2a–c
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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