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    		• Price, Michael,
     
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    		• Portrait female -- Greene, Mary B.
     
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    		• Occupation -- Transportation
     
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    		• Dress -- Accessory
     
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    		• Architecture -- Boat
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Covington
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Captain Mary B. Greene, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Price, Michael, 1940-2001, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Captain Mary B. Greene, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1988.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: black marble.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 68 x 33 x 21 in.; Base: 6 1/2 x 30 x 30 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On pilot's engine control:) Chadbury Telegraph Established 1868, Cincinnati, Ohio unsigned
    Description: 
    Captain Mary B. Greene stands with her proper right hand, at waist-level, holding the lever of a pilot's engine control that rests at her proper right front side. In her proper left hand, she holds a folded pilot's cap behind her back. Her hair is loosely pulled into a top-knot. A ruffled blouse with bow tie shows beneath a three-quarter-length loose jacket. She wears a floor-length, full skirt with her proper left shoe showing below the hemline. The sculpture is mounted on a short, square base and faces the Ohio River.
    Subject: 
    Portrait female -- Greene, Mary B. -- Full length
    Occupation -- Transportation -- Captain
    Dress -- Accessory -- Hat
    Architecture -- Boat -- Detail
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Covington
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Covington, Parks and Recreation, 7th & Madison, Covington, Kentucky 41011
    Located George Rogers Clark Park, Riverside Drive, Covington, Kentucky
    Remarks: 
    The inscription on a nearby plaque reads: CAPTAIN MARY B. GREENE/1869-1949/MARY GREENE WAS BORN THE DAUGHTER OF A COUNTRY STOREKEEPER. WHEN SHE/MARRIED CAPTAIN GORDON C. GREENE, SHE LEFT THE LAND TO MAKE HER LIFE AND/RAISE HER FAMILY ON THE RIVERS OF AMERICA. CAPTAIN MARY WAS ONE OF THE FEW/WOMEN TO BECOME A LICENSED BOAT MASTER AND RIVER PILOT./THE EXPLOITS OF MARY GREENE ARE LEGENDARY. SHE STEERED THROUGH A CYCLONE,/SURVIVED AN EXPLOSION OF NITRO GLYCERINE, AND BIRTH TO A SON WHILE HER/BOAT WAS LOCKED IN AN ICE GORGE. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, IN 1927/CAPTAIN MARY RAN THE 24 PADDLEWHEELERS OF THE/GREENLINE STEAMERS COMPANY, INCLUDING THE DELTA QUEEN. For related reading see the Kentucky Post, April 6, 1988, pg. 1KK, 2KK.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kentucky 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 KY000280
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