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Columns on Downtown Walkway, (sculpture). Artist:  Begay, Wallace, sculptor. Title:  Columns on Downtown Walkway, (sculpture). Dates:  ca. 1986-1987. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Concrete, painted. Dimensions:  Approx. 9 ft. x 13 ft. 4 in. x 7 ft. 5 in. Inscription:  (Bottom of column, proper left:) W BEGAY signed Description:  Four columns arranged in an L-shape and connected at the top by a round beam. Each column is brightly painted with different images. One column depicts galloping horses; another depicts a Navajo family, with a man, a woman holding a baby, and another woman seated, holding a pot. There is also a person on a horse. One column depicts a Hispanic family; and one column depicts a cityscape scene with a theater with a marquee that reads "HALLELUJAH TRAIL," and a locomotive. The top of the columns are painted with acrylic in rainbow hues, and the connecting beam is turquoise. There are painted pictographs on each column above the rainbow. Subject:  History -- United States -- Westward Expansion Figure group -- Family Ethnic -- Indian -- Navajo Ethnic -- Hispanic Cityscape Architecture -- Vehicle -- Train Object -- Other -- Cookware Animal -- Horse Object -- Art Object -- Pictograph Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Gallup Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Gallup, Downtown Development, 110 West Aztec Avenue, Gallup, New Mexico 07301 Located City walkway, middle of block on Coal Avenue, Gallup, New Mexico References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Mexico 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 NM000423   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NM000423 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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