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The Prairies-Beech Memorial Doors, (sculpture). Artist:  Moore, Bruce, 1905-1980, sculptor. Modern Art Foundry, founder. Title:  The Prairies-Beech Memorial Doors, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Walter H. Beech Memorial Doors, (sculpture). Dates:  1965. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Bronze. Dimensions:  2 sets of double doors. (Entry one, left door: approx. 26 x 23 x 2 1/2 in.; Right door: approx. 14 x 29 x 5 in.) (Entry two, left door: approx. 14 x 31 x 3 1/2 ft.; Right door: approx. 29 x 23 x 3 in.). Inscription:  (At bottom of base of Indian, lower left:) BRUCE MOORE 1965 MODERN ART/FRY./N.Y. signed Founder's mark appears. Description:  Two sets of double doors, with decorative bronze relief plaques and bronze door handles. At entry one, the left door depicts Indians, including a male Indian with long braids, loin cloth and club, and five Indian squaws, birds, stars, and a howling coyote. The right door of entry one includes a scene of five stampeding buffalo, and six birds. The door handles feature turtles. At entry two, the left doors feature five longhorned sheep running, with birds in flight. The right door features a frontiersman holding a rifle in his proper left hand, surrounded by several figures, two horses pulling a covered wagon, birds and a jackrabbit. Both door handles feature ducks. Subject:  History -- United States -- Westward Expansion Figure group Ethnic -- Indian Animal -- Bird -- Duck Animal -- Buffalo Animal -- Coyote Animal -- Rabbit Animal -- Reptile -- Turtle Travel -- Land -- Wagon Object Type:  Relief Door Sculpture Owner:  Wichita Center for the Arts, 9112 East Central, Wichita, Kansas 67206 Remarks:  The doors were presented to the Wichita Center for the Arts in 1965, by Mrs. Walter H. Beech and daughters Suzanne Beech Warner and Mary Lynn Beech Oliver. At time of November 1993 SOS! survey, the doors were still used as exterior doors. Sometime later, however, when the new museum foyer was built, the doors were moved indoors. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kansas, Wichita survey, 1993. Paulsen, Chris, ed., "Beautifying Wichita Through Sculpture," Wichita, KS: Project Beauty, Inc., c. 1989. (booklet) Illustration:  Image on file. Paulsen, Chris, ed., "Beautifying Wichita Through Sculpture," Wichita, KS: Project Beauty, Inc., c. 1989, pg. 16. 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 88410022   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 88410022 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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