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    		• Mendez, Antonio Tobias,
     
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    		• Urban, Jim,
     
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    		• Fine Arts Foundry (Michigan),
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Occupation -- Industry
     
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    		• Architecture -- Boat
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Solomons
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    A Tribute to the Oyster Tonger, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Mendez, Antonio Tobias, sculptor.
    Urban, Jim, landscape architect.
    Fine Arts Foundry (Michigan), founder.
    Title: 
    A Tribute to the Oyster Tonger, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Chesapeake Waterman, (sculpture).
    Tonger, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1993. Dedicated Sept. 1994.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: Mt. Airy granite and Texas red cobblestone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 10 x 26 x 10 ft.; Base: approx. Circum. 138 ft.
    Inscription: 
    Monument-Design Sculpt/Antonio Tobias Mendez (Incised on ground, around sculpture:) I'm a tonger/My father was a tonger./There's been tongers/in my family as far back/as I can remember./A Chesapeake Tonger/A man's gotta love it to do it/A Chesapeake Waterman/Facing the chill wind/ripping off the bay/cold enough to bring tears/to your eyes. Hands so cold/you can't hardly tell/you're wearing gloves/Rough, back-breaking work/that lets you sleep easy/at night knowing you've/done an honest day's work/The Calvert County Recorder signed
    Description: 
    Sculpture depicts a Chesapeake Bay waterman using hand tongs to harvest oysters. Dressed in coat, hat and boots, the bronze figure holds the oyster tongs in both hands, horizontally. He stands on a tiered boat structure made of white Mt. Airy granite. There is a tray of oysters behind him on the boat. The sculpture is set within the center of a circular Texas red cobblestone fountain basin, with granite ice flows.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Full length
    Occupation -- Industry -- Fishing
    Architecture -- Boat
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Solomons
    Fountain
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Calvert County, Board of Commissioners, P. O. Box 2541, Prince Frederick, Maryland 20678
    Located Annmarie Garden on St. John, Solomons, Maryland
    Remarks: 
    IAS files contain copy of "Concept and Description" of the sculpture, Toby Mendez Studios.
    References: 
    Yohalem, Francoise, 1996.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maryland 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 MD000536
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