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    		• Milligan, Carolyn,
     
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    		• Mitchell, Bill,
     
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    		• Tixier, Jacques,
     
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    		• Object -- Other
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Indian
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Hispanic
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Gallup
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Saltillo Rug, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Milligan, Carolyn, sculptor.
    Mitchell, Bill, sculptor.
    Tixier, Jacques, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Saltillo Rug, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1993. Dedicated July 1993.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Steel plate.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 12 ft. x 7 ft. x 6 1/2 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On bronze plaque, lower front of rug:) "SALTILLO RUG"/by/CAROLYN MILLIGAN/BILL MITCHELL/JACQUES C. TIXIER/JULY 1993/THE ARTISTS' WORK WAS PURCHASED THROUGH AND/FUNDED BY THE ART IN PUBLIC PLACES PROGRAM OF/THE NEW MEXICO ARTS DIVISION, THE GALLUP AREA/ARTS COUNCIL AND McKINLEY COUNTY./McKINLEY COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS/HARRY H. MENDOZA, CHAIRPERSON/EARNEST C. BECENTI, SR./KEITH L. ELKINS/TEODOLO F. ARELLANO, MANGER. unsigned
    Description: 
    Sculpture is a steel loom and saltillo rug. The half-inch steel plate rug, suspended from the loom, is anchored to the ground by two vertical 6 inch pipes that frame the work. The saltillo pattern is created by a series of cut outs in the flat surface of the rug.
    Subject: 
    Object -- Other -- Rug
    Ethnic -- Indian
    Ethnic -- Hispanic
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Gallup
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Thoreau Senior Center, 371 State Highway, Thoreau, New Mexico 87323
    On loan to McKinley County Courthouse, 2nd & Hill Street, Gallup, New Mexico
    Remarks: 
    Cost of the sculpture was $5,000.00. Sculpture was funded in part by the State of New Mexico Art in Public Places program. The work is on loan to the McKinley County Courthouse. IAS files contain copy of related article from the Independent (Gallup, New Mexico), July 7, 1993. IAS files contain copies of Notice of Acceptance, project timeline, artist's diagram and correspondence related to selection and placement of the sculpture.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Mexico 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 NM000451
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