In this spinning weather vane, Diana, the mythological goddess of the hunt, strides through the air accompanied by her hunting dog. William Hunt Diederich combined past and present by merging early 20th-century Art Deco designs of sweeping curves with allegorical figures in the making of his decorative functional objects. Diederich’s globe-trotting career included an early exhibition in Baltimore, at the National Sculpture Society, in 1908. Diederich’s daughter Diana, a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, donated this weather vane to the BMA.