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    		• Escobedo, Nati,
     
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    		• Abstract
     
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    		• Allegory -- Life
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- Liberty Hill
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Tierra Madre, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Escobedo, Nati, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Tierra Madre, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1976. Relocated 1987. Rededicated May 5, 1987.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: limestone; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 38 x 48 x 26 in.; Base: approx. 28 x 35 x 59 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On bottom front of sculpture:) Nati Escobedo (On small brass plaque on top of base:) NATI ESCOBEDO/"TIERRA MADRE"/UNITED STATES. (On front of base, stenciled in black:) 9 signed
    Subject: 
    Abstract
    Allegory -- Life -- Womanhood
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- Liberty Hill
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Liberty Hill Development Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 300, Liberty Hill, Texas 78642
    Located Liberty Hill International Sculpture Garden, Highway 29 at Loop 332, Liberty Hill, Texas
    Provenance: 
    Formerly administered by Liberty Hill Independent School District, Liberty Hill High School, P. O. Box 332, Highway 29 at Loop 332, Liberty Hill, Texas 78642
    Formerly located Veteran's Park, Corner of Myrtle & Main Street, Liberty Hill, Texas
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was created as part of an International Sculpture Symposium, organized by local sculptor Mel Fowler to commemorate the United States Bicentennial. Twenty-three sculptors were invited to participate. The sculptures were originally installed at Veterans Park (Myrtle & Main Streets). Because they were subject to vandalism over the years, they were moved in 1987 to their current site at Liberty Hill High School. IAS files contain transcription of a nearby plaque which provides biography of Mel Fowler and gives history of the sculpture garden.
    IAS files also contain related articles from The Independent dated April 25, 1991, pg. 7-14 and July 11, 1991, pg. 9; a pamphlet "International Sculpture Garden," Liberty Hill, TX: Liberty Hill High School, n.d.; and excerpt from Bette Redman Reichman, ed., "Sculpture in Austin," Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin, College of Fine Arts, 1989, pg. 17.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Texas, Austin survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    The Independent (Texas), April 25, 1991, pg. 9.
    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 TX000703
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