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Confederate Women, (sculpture). Artist:  Kinney, Belle, 1890-1959, sculptor. Title:  Confederate Women, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Civil War Mother, (sculpture). Dates:  ca. 1926. Dedicated Oct. 10, 1926. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze, painted copper over patina; Base: granite. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 8 x 7 x 6 ft.; Base: approx. 11 x 6 1/2 x 6 ft. Inscription:  (On bottom of bronze sculpture:) BELLE KINNEY (On bronze plaque, base:) ERECTED BY THE STATE OF TENNESSEE/TO COMMEMORATE THE HEROIC DEVOTION AND/SELF-SACRIFICE OF THE WOMEN OF TENNESSEE/DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES/DEDICATED: OCTOBER 10, 1926./BELLE KINNEY, SCULPTOR/THIS PLAQUE PLACED BY THE TENNESSEE HISTORICAL COMMISSION signed Description:  Three seated figures. At the proper left is a male figure lying back against a broken cannon as if dying. In the center is a female figure representing a Greek goddess and wearing classical drapery and a laurel wreath on her head. She holds a wreath over the head of the female figure on her proper right who wears a dress of the Civil War period. The male figure is also dressed in Civil War era clothing. The woman on the proper right holds a palm branch over the man. The man grasps a partially rolled up flag in his proper left hand. His legs are bent under him as if he is kneeling or falling. The sculpture is attached to a wall, and the rectangular granite base juts out from wall. Subject:  History -- United States -- Civil War Figure group Dress -- Historic -- Nineteenth Century Dress Object -- Weapon -- Cannon Mythology -- Classical Allegory -- Life -- Womanhood Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Tennessee -- Nashville Sculpture Owner:  Coadministered by State of Tennessee, Department of General Services, 2-200 Central Services Building, Nashville, Tennessee 37243 Coadministered by State of Tennessee, Department of Finance & Administration, 304 John Sevier Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37243 Located Legislative Plaza, Vietnam Veterans Park, 7th Avenue & Union Nashville, Tennessee Remarks:  IAS files contain a related article from Civil War Centennial Commission of Tennessee, "Directory of Civil War Monuments and Memorials in Tennessee," Nashville, 1963, pg. 18, and a related unidentified article on Nashville's Commemorative Sculptures. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Tennessee survey, 1992. Civil War Centennial Commission of Tennessee, "Directory of Civil War Monuments and Memorials in Tennessee," Nashville, 1963, pg. 18. Illustration:  Image on file. Civil War Centennial Commission of Tennessee, "Directory of Civil War Monuments and Memorials in Tennessee," Nashville, 1963, pg. 18. 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 TN000050   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture TN000050 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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