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Michigan Department of Transportation Employee Memorial, (sculpture). Artist:  Floyd, Carl, 1936- , sculptor. Title:  Michigan Department of Transportation Employee Memorial, (sculpture). Other Titles:  MDOT Memorial, (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated May 18, 1994. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sheet steel, diamond steel and other metals. Dimensions:  Overall: approx. 8 x 60 x 15 ft. Inscription:  (On plaque on saw horse:) Michigan Department of Transportation/Employee Memorial/These seven steel sculptures are a permanent tribute/to Michigan Department of Transportation workers/who lost their lives in job-related accidents while/working for you and the State of Michigan./Each figure represents an MDOT work activity and is/constructed from materials salvaged from highway/jobs. Both current and retired MDOT employees/independently raised the funds to pay for this tribute./Sculptor: Carl Floyd/Dedicated: May 18, 1994 unsigned Description:  Figurative grouping consists of four men, two women and a saw horse, seen in flat silhouettes. The figures are engaged in Highway Department work activities and all wear hard hats and work clothes. Five of the figures and the saw horse comprise the central group. One of the male figures holds a stop sign. Another is digging with his proper right foot pushing the shovel downward. An engineer holds unfurled blueprints in both hands and wears a necktie. The remaining male figure wears a coat with an upturned collar and holds a book-like object in his proper right hand. The two female figures are surveying. One of the female figures has braided hair and is operating a surveying device. She stands in the central grouping. The other female figure stands across the plaza and is holding a surveyor's rod. The sculpture is installed on a brick plaza. Subject:  Figure group Occupation -- Transportation Occupation -- Industry -- Engineering Object -- Tool -- Measuring Device Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Michigan -- Clare Sculpture Owner:  State of Michigan, Department of Transportation, U. S. Highway 27, Rest area, North of Clare, Clare, Michigan Remarks:  The sculpture was erected in memory of Department of Transportation employees who were killed on the job. It was funded by other department employees and retired employees. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Michigan survey, 1994. Illustration:  Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS MI000592   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture MI000592 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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