Jann Haworth [b. 1942]Cowboy1964Kapok and unbleached calicoWilson Gift through Art Fund (2006)
“The American cowboy is an enduring motif in “Hollywood films, which has in recent years been reconsidered through a more contemporary lens, raising issues of gender, identity and social history. Jann Haworth recalls seeing her first rodeo in 1956 and, for her, the rodeo cowboy is a 'fossil of the imperfect/perfect Great American Myth! Cowboy is one of her earliest soft-sculpture figures, depicting a macho subject in a material commonly perceived as feminine.