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    		• Barnard, George Grey,
     
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    		• Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company,
     
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    		• Figure male
     
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    		• Occupation -- Farm
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Cairo
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    The Hewer, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Barnard, George Grey, 1863-1938, sculptor.
    Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, founder.
    Title: 
    The Hewer, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Cast 1903.; Installed 1906.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Bronze on concrete base.
    Dimensions: 
    Figure: approx. 5 x 3 x 4 ft.; Base: approx. 4 x 3 x 3 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On proper left side:) George Gray (sic) Bernard, sculptor Cast in one piece by the Henry Bonnard Bronze Founders N.Y. 1903 (Top plaque on front of base:) THE HEWER (Bottom plaque on front of base:) ERECTED IN MEMORY OF/WILLIAM PARKER HALLIDAY/PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF/CAIRO ILLINOIS IN 1906/IN TOKEN OF HIS UNSWERVING FAITH/IN HER DESTINY signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A nude male figure, crouching, holding a stick in his proper left arm before him. His proper right arm is raised upward, holding an implement, and poised to strike down on the stick.
    Subject: 
    Figure male
    Occupation -- Farm
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Cairo
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Cairo, 1501 Washington Avenue, Box 393, Cairo, Illinois 62194
    Located Halliday Park, Washington Avenue, Cairo, Illinois 62914
    Remarks: 
    IAS files contain an unidentified flyer "Cairo's Art Treasure" which says that the Hewer was presented to the City in 1906 by Mrs. W. P. Halliday and children in memory of Capt. W. P. Halliday. It was a bronze casting of a marble Hewer Barnard had done for the World's Fair in St. Louis, commissioned in 1901 by the artist's friend Miss Mary Halliday, a Cairo artist. The flyer quotes a letter to Miss Adlaide Rendleman from Barnard on May 8, 1937, saying "My Hewer was created (strangely but true) from a vision of men laboring on the shore of a flood hewing and dragging wood to save the people from death and destruction."
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Illinois survey, 1992.
    Naude, Virginia Norton, "Sculptural Monuments in an Outdoor Environment," Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1985, pg. 92.
    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 75004399
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