They Call the Land Montana, (sculpture).

They Call the Land Montana, (sculpture).

Capser, Mike, sculptor.

They Call the Land Montana, (sculpture).

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Sculpture: cast bronze; Base: polished concrete.

Sculpture: approx. 6 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. x 5 ft. 7 in.; Base: approx. 5 in. x 5 ft. x 5 ft.

(On belt of male figure:) M Capsar (sic) 89 signed

A pioneer family, consisting of a father, mother, and child. The father, a mustached figure wearing a kerchief around his neck, crouches down and holds a wide-brimmed hat with both hands. Behind the father stands the mother wearing a wind blown dress. She raises her proper left hand to her head and places her proper right hand on the back of the child. The child sits atop an upright wagon wheel. The sculpture is placed in the foreground of an arched monument with side walls.

History -- United States -- Westward Expansion

Figure group -- Family

Literature -- Berg -- And They Called the Land Montana

Allegory -- Place -- Montana

Dress -- Accessory -- Hat

Object -- Other -- Wheel

Outdoor Sculpture -- Montana -- Harlowton

Wheatland County, 100 2nd Street, N.W., Courthouse, Harlowton, Montana 59036

The sculpture was made possible through the efforts of the Twelve-Woman Wheatland County Centennial Sculpture Committee and was created in 1989, Montana's Centennial year, to honor the land and its people. IAS files contain a transcription of the nearby plaque which contains Lauretta Berg's, "And They Called the Land Montana," as well as the names of the twelve women from the sculpture committee.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Montana survey, 1996.

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