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Cultural Crossroads, (sculpture). Artist:  Latka, Tom, sculptor. Latka, Jean, sculptor. Riley, Terry, architect. Latka Studios, fabricator. Title:  Cultural Crossroads, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Storyteller Sculpture Wall, (sculpture). Dates:  Commissioned March 1992. 1992. Copyrighted 1992. Dedicated Aug. 1992. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Relief: terra cotta and matt tile, partially glazed and painted. Dimensions:  Relief: approx. H. 115 3/4 in. x W. 115 3/4 in. Inscription:  (On lower left corner of sculpture:) 1992/Tom Latka (copyright symbol)/Jean Latka Terry Riley (On lower left corner of sculpture:) Pueblo/Area Chapter/of/Credit Unions/Colorado Council/on the/Arts &/Humanities signed Description:  A square relief, made with embossed and painted symbols and carved tile colored with blue glaze, depicting symbols of American culture. Within the square relief there is a circle on a diamond frame. Four elongated arms reaching in from the edge of the sculpture converge in the center, each grasping the wrist of the other, creating four quadrants in the relief. In the top quadrant there is a relief bust a Native-American male with a feather in his hair; in the right quadrant there is a relief bust of a Spanish explorer wearing a hat; in the bottom quadrant there is a relief bust of a Mexican male wearing a sombrero; and in the left quadrant there is a relief bust of a frontier woman wearing a bonnet. Surrounding the circular section is a relief of blue waves and along the edge of the diamond frame are mosaic tiles of native animal footprints. Images on the outer sections of the sculpture include a locomotive train, a tee-pee, a buffalo, a horse, and a pueblo. Subject:  Figure group -- Bust Dress -- Accessory -- Hat Ethnic -- Indian Ethnic -- Mexican Ethnic -- Spanish Figure -- Fragment -- Arm Architecture -- Vehicle -- Train Architecture -- Domestic -- Adobe Architecture -- Domestic -- Pueblo Animal -- Horse Animal -- Buffalo Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Colorado -- Pueblo Architectural component Relief Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Colorado Historical Society, El Pueblo Museum, 314 West 1st Street, Pueblo, Colorado 81003 Located Beckworth Plaza, Grand Avenue at 1st Street, Pueblo, Colorado Remarks:  IAS files contain a commission proposal for the sculpture. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Colorado survey, 1994. 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 CO000517   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CO000517 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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