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Will Rogers Riding into the Sunset, (sculpture). Artist:  Biggs, Electra Waggoner, 1916- , sculptor. Castleberry, Metz, caster. Castleberry Art Foundry, founder. Title:  Will Rogers Riding into the Sunset, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Will Rogers on Soapsuds, (sculpture). Dates:  ca. 1941.; Cast 1989. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Statue: bronze; Base: concrete. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 9 ft. 5 in. x 36 in. x 70 in.; Base: approx. 6 x 30 x 60 in. Inscription:  (Left side:) Executed by Electra Waggoner Biggs (Back of sculpture:) Cast by Metz Castleberry/Weatherford, Texas (Front of sculpture:) Will Rogers/Riding into the Sunset/1879-1935 (Bronze plaque on front of base:) Will Rogers/Into the Sunset/by/Electra Waggoner Biggs signed Founder's mark appears. Description:  Will Rogers on his horse Soapsuds. The horse raises one forepaw slightly into the air. Subject:  Portrait male -- Rogers, Will Animal -- Portrait -- Soapsuds Equestrian Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- Dallas Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Crow Family Interests, Art Administration, 4814 Bengal Street #1, Dallas, Texas 75235 Located Loews Anatole Hotel, 2201 Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, Texas Remarks:  Biggs accepted a commission from Amon G. Carter, Sr., in 1937 to sculpt an equestrian of Will Rogers and Soapsuds. She was dissatisfied with the first model and after five years of work, she started over. She used a New York Police Department horse that resembled Soapsuds and hired a model similar in physique to Will Rogers to pose on a barrel in her studio. The first bronze casting was installed in 1947 at the Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum in Fort Worth. Other castings are placed in Lubbock and Claremore, Oklahoma. This casting was made in 1989 at Castleberry Art Foundry in Weatherford, Texas. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Texas, Dallas survey, 1992. Hendricks, Patricia D., and Becky Duval Reese, "A Century of Sculpture in Texas," Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989, pg. 40-41. Dallas Morning News, March 17, 1985. Dallas Morning News, Feb. 3, 1979. 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 TX000009   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture TX000009 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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