- Artist or Maker
- Opco Company
United States, California, Los Angeles - Title
- Ice Gun
- Date Made
- circa 1935
- Medium
- Aluminum, chrome-plated steel
- Dimensions
- 6 1/4 × 10 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (15.88 × 27.31 × 6.35 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2010.204
- Collecting Area
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Curatorial Notes
The ice gun’s aerodynamic form resembles the streamlined trains and automobiles of the 1930s. It provided cocktail party theater: the thirsty gunslinger would pull back on the cone-shaped lever, drop the ice cubes in the opening at the top, release the trigger, and crushed ice would fall into the waiting glass.
(California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," 2011-12)
- Selected Bibliography
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
- Selected Exhibition History
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
