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    		• Slitz, John,
     
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    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
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    		• Allegory -- Life
     
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    		• Dress -- Historic
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Laclede
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    War Angel, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Slitz, John, sculptor.
    Title: 
    War Angel, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated Oct. 29, 1940.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Sculpture: white marble (Italian or Nepoleon); Base: concrete and mortared fieldstone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 60 x 57 x 60 in.; Base: approx. 79 x 93 x 93 in. (2 tons).
    Inscription: 
    (On plaque on front of base:) MOTHERHOOD/ (In two columns:) (First column:) SEPT. 29/1940 (In center of plaque is the American War Mothers Seal) (Second column:) SEPT. 1/1954 (Beneath columns:) MISSOURI STATE CHAPTER/AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS unsigned
    Description: 
    A seated female figure dressed in a robe and draped in the American flag wears a laurel wreath upon her head and sits upon a stool that has eagle claw legs. A platform beneath the sculpture is encircled by a large laurel wreath.
    Subject: 
    Figure female -- Full length
    Allegory -- Life -- Womanhood
    Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress
    Object -- Foliage -- Laurel
    Object -- Furniture -- Chair
    Object -- Other -- Flag
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Laclede
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by State of Missouri, Department of Natural Resources, Division of State Parks, Historic Sites Program, P. O. Box. 176, Jefferson City Missouri 65102
    Located Pershing Park, Laclede, Missouri
    Remarks: 
    The War Angel was sculpted while the artist was a federal prisoner at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas "as atonement for his misdeeds." It was presented to the park by the War Mothers of Linn County and dedicated as a tribute to American motherhood and in honor of General John J. Pershing. The sculpture originally included the figure holding a "torch of liberty" in her right hand. The plaque on the base was added in 1955 by the Missouri Chapter of American War Mothers. IAS files contain related articles from the Laclede Blade (Laclede, MO), Oct. 25 & Nov. 2, 1940; and a related unidentified clipping.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Missouri survey, 1995.
    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 MO000252
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