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    		• Mayfield, O. C.,
     
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    		• Animal -- Dog
     
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    		• Animal -- Raccoon
     
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    		• Landscape -- Tree
     
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    		• Homage -- Trump
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Alabama -- Franklin
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Mayfield, O. C., sculptor.
    Title: 
    Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Sept. 4, 1937. Dedicated Nov. 17, 1962.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: Russellville limestone; Base: Russellville limestone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 60 x 15 x 10 in.; Base: approx. 32 x 48 x 48 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On base, left:) CARVED BY/O. C. UNDERWOOD (Incised on base, front:) KEY/UNDERWOOD/MEMORIAL/COON DOG/CEMETERY/PARK DIRECTORS/JOE FOSTER/JOAN BURNS/KEY UNDERWOOD (Incised on base, rear:) COON DOG/GRAVEYARD/STARTED/SEPT. 4 1937/DONATED BY/TENN. VALLEY/COONHUNTERS CLUB (Incised on base, left:) ERECTED/ON/NOV 17 1962 (On base of replica:) KEY UNDERWOOD/COON DOG MEMORIAL/GRAVEYARD/STARTED SEPT. 4 1937/MONUMENT DONATED BY/RUSSELLVILLE CUT STONE INC./CARVED BY O. C. MAYFIELD signed
    Description: 
    Sculpture depicts two dogs standing on their hind legs on either side of a tree trunk. A raccoon is perched at the top of the hollowed out tree and looks down at the dogs. The dogs appear to be barking. The sculpture stands on a low, square base and a flat lower base on which later inscriptions appear.
    Subject: 
    Animal -- Dog
    Animal -- Raccoon
    Landscape -- Tree
    Homage -- Trump
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Alabama -- Franklin
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Coon Dog Memorial Cemetery, Franklin, Alabama
    Remarks: 
    Gifts of the Tennessee Valley Coonhunters Club and the Russellville Cut Stone, Inc. A replica, twice the size of the original, stands 50 feet away. Both monuments are enclosed in chain-link fences. The monument stands in a cemetery created in 1937 just for coon dogs. It was founded by Key Underwood in honor of the dog Trump, who was the first to be buried there.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Alabama survey, 1993.
    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 AL000300
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