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    		• Mitchell, Robert C.,
     
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    		• Flour City Ornamental Ironworks,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Hibbing, Frank
     
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    		• Object -- Tool
     
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    		• Dress -- Accessory
     
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    		• Occupation -- Industry
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Minnesota -- Hibbing
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Frank Hibbing, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Mitchell, Robert C., sculptor.
    Flour City Ornamental Ironworks, founder.
    Title: 
    Frank Hibbing, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Cast 1940. Dedicated 1941.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 6 ft. x 2 ft. x 2 ft. 8 in.; Base: approx. 1 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. x 3 ft.
    Inscription: 
    R. C. Mitchell 1940 signed
    Description: 
    Frank Hibbing stands with his proper left foot forward and resting on a raised, rock-like form. He holds a pickax in his proper left hand. The head of the pickax sits to the proper left side of his proper left foot. His proper right arm is bent at the elbow and his proper right hand is clenched against his proper right hip. The figure has a backpack on his back and is wearing knee-high boots, pants, shirt, and a hat.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Hibbing, Frank -- Full length
    Object -- Tool -- Axe
    Dress -- Accessory -- Knapsack
    Occupation -- Industry -- Mining
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Minnesota -- Hibbing
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Hibbing, Parks and Recreation, 401 East 21st Street, City Hall, Hibbing, Minnesota 55746
    Located Frank Hibbing Memorial Park, Hibbing, Minnesota
    Remarks: 
    Inscription on nearby plaque reads: TO THE MEMORY OF/FRANK HIBBING/WHO WITH THE UNDAUNTED/COURAGE AND THE CLEAR/VISION OF A PIONEER/LAID THE FOUNDATION OF/THIS MODERN VILLAGE,/GRATEFUL CITIZENS DEDICATE/THIS MEMORIAL/.-/IN 1893 HE DISCOVERED IRON/ORE ON THE MESABA RANGE AND/IN 1893 PLANTED THE FIRST/TOWNSITE OF HIBBING./HE ESTABLISHED THE FIRST SAWMILL,/THE FIRST BANK, THE FIRST WATER PLANT/THE FIRST ELECTRIC LIGHT SYSTEM,/AND THE FRIST ROADS/IN HIBBING./-/BORN IN KIRCHBOITZEN,/HANOVER, GERMANY/ DEC.14, 1856/DIED IN DULTH, MINNESOTA/JULY 20, 1897.
    IAS files contain excerpt from the book entitled, "Monumental Minnesota" by Moira F. Harris dated 1992, pgs. 42-43.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Minnesota survey, 1994.
    SOS Assessment Award, 2001.
    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 MN000036
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