Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Olathe Monument Company,
History -- United States
Architecture -- Vehicle
Animal -- Cattle
Object -- Other
Emblem -- Seal
Outdoor Sculpture -- Kansas -- Olathe
Sculpture
Santa Fe Trail Marker, (sculpture).
Artist:
Olathe Monument Company, fabricator.
Title:
Santa Fe Trail Marker, (sculpture).
Dates:
Dedicated 1907.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Marker: granite; Plaque: bronze; Base: granite, concrete.
Dimensions:
Marker: approx. 72 x 54 x 26 in.; Base: approx. 18 x 63 x 36 in.
Inscription:
(On bronze plaque:) THIS MARKS THE ROUTE OF THE/SANTA FE TRAIL/KANSAS CITY TO SANTA FE 1822-1880 (On seal, lower left corner of plaque:) GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF KANSAS,/JANUARY 29 1857 (On seal, lower right corner of plaque:) CITY OF SANTA FE NEW MEXICO/SEAL/ORGANIZED/JULY 13 AD (year illegible) (On granite marker, below plaque:) ERECTED BY JOHNSON COUNTY/AND THE/OLD SETTLERS ASSOCIATION/1907
Description:
Granite monument commemorating the Santa Fe Trail. The stone marker is rough-hewn and has a relief carving of an ox yoke and chain. Below the relief is embedded a bronze plaque. The plaque has a bas-relief of a wagon being pulled by an oxen team along the Santa Fe Trail. The relief depicts the oxen turning a bend in the trail; they are led by two men on horseback. At either corner near the bottom of the plaque are the seals of the State of Kansas and the State of New Mexico. The granite marker sits on a stone base which rests on a concrete slab.
Subject:
History -- United States -- Westward Expansion
Architecture -- Vehicle -- Wagon
Animal -- Cattle
Object -- Other -- Yoke
Emblem -- Seal
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Kansas -- Olathe
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Board of the County Commissioners of Johnson County, Facilities Administrator, 111 South Cherry, Suite 1100, Olathe, Kansas 66061
Located Johnson County Courthouse Square, Olathe, Kansas
Remarks:
The marker was formerly located at the southeast corner of the old courthouse, but was moved to the northeast corner of the new Courthouse.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kansas survey, 1995.
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 KS000602
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
KS000602
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact
Login
Help
