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Hemingway Memorial, (sculpture). Artist:  Berks, Robert, 1922- , sculptor. Anderson, Don, assistant. Wright, Neil, assistant. Bennett, Eddy, assistant. Title:  Hemingway Memorial, (sculpture). Dates:  1959. Dedicated July 21, 1966. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Pedestal: concrete; Base: stone. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 14 x 12 x 10 in.; Pedestal: approx. 49 x 12 x 12 in.; Base: approx. 44 x 92 x 75 in. Inscription:  (On plaque on base:) BEST OF ALL HE LOVED THE FALL/THE LEAVES YELLOW ON THE COTTONWOODS/LEAVES FLOATING ON THE TROUT STREAMS/AND ABOVE THE HILLS/THE HIGH BLUE WINDLESS SKIES/...NOW HE WILL BE A PART OF THEM FOREVER/ERNEST HEMINGWAY-IDAHO-1939 Description:  Bronze head of Ernest Hemingway sits on a tall pedestal and a stone base. Subject:  Portrait male -- Hemingway, Ernest -- Head Occupation -- Writer -- Novelist Occupation -- Writer -- Journalist Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Idaho -- Sun Valley Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Sun Valley Resort, Sun Valley, Idaho 83353 Located Trail Creek, Above the Sun Valley Golf Course, Sun Valley, Idaho Remarks:  Inscription was written by Hemingway in 1939 for his friend Eugene Van Guilder who was killed in a hunting accident in southern Idaho that year. Sculpture was donated by New York friends. Hemingway, himself, first came to Idaho in 1939, and returned in 1940 and 1941. He later made Ketchum his permanent home and died there in 1961. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Idaho 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 ID000070   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture ID000070 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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