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We Didn't Know It Couldn't Be Done, (sculpture). Artist:  Alexander, Malcolm, sculptor. Tallix, founder. Parks Studio, fabricator. Title:  We Didn't Know It Couldn't Be Done, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Pipeline Monument, (sculpture). Dates:  Commissioned Aug. 1977. 1978. Dedicated Sept. 20, 1980. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Figures: cast bronze; Base: stone. Dimensions:  Figures: approx. H. 25 ft. x Diam. 18 ft.; Base: approx. 5 ft. x Diam. 18 ft. Inscription:  (Under boot of engineer:) ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO./(copyright symbol) 1978/Alexander/(founder's mark) TALLIX PEEKSKILL, N.Y. signed Founder's mark appears. Description:  Five full-length figures, representing pipeline workers, the gathered in a circle facing outward. Figures include: a surveyor in heavy coat with a ruffed hood. His mittened proper right hand shades his eyes and his proper left hand holds a transit. Also shown: an engineer in a hard hat with a set of plans open upon his knee; a welder with his tools in hand; an Alaska native laborer with a shovel; and a female teamster holding a grease gun. The figures are standing on a pile of boulders. Subject:  History -- United States -- Alaska Figure group Occupation -- Industry -- Oil Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Alaska -- Valdez Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Corporate Affairs Dept., P. O. Box 300, Valdez, Alaska 99686 Located Trans Alaska Pipeline Terminal, Front entrance, six mile mark Dayview Road, Valdez, Alaska Remarks:  The sculpture, also known as the Pipeline Monument, was commissioned by then Chairman of the Board of Atlantic Richfield, R.O. Anderson , in recognition of the men and women who built the Alaskan pipeline from 1969 to 1977. Parks Studio (Wilmington, DE) produced a fiberglass model of the artist's plaster mold, and Tallix did the bronze casting. IAS files contain related excerpt from Stahn Cohen's text: "The Great Alaska Pipeline," (Missoula, MT:) 1988, pg. 125-127; and dedication booklet from Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Alaska survey, 1994. Cohen Stan, "The Great Alaska Pipeline," Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1988 pg. 125-127. Illustration:  Image on file. Cohen, Stan, "The Great Alaska Pipeline," Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1988 pg. 126. 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 AK000070   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture AK000070 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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