Charter Oak, (sculpture).

Charter Oak, (sculpture).

Salewski, Charles D., sculptor.

Charter Oak, (sculpture).

Connecticut State Capitol: East Elevation, (sculpture).

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Approx. 6 x 9 x 1 ft.

(Below relief:) Charter Oak

A relief depicting Connecticut's "charter" oak tree. The tree's trunk is cracked, where Captain Joseph Wadsworth hid the Colony's Royal Charter, a liberal document granting freedom to the Colonists, to avoid capture by British representatives.

History -- United States -- Connecticut

Landscape -- Connecticut -- Hartford

Landscape -- Tree -- Oak Tree

Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Hartford

Administered by State of Connecticut, Office of Legislative Management, Legislative Office Building, 210 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut 06106

Located Connecticut State Capitol, 210 Capitol Avenue, East Entrance, Central tympanum, Hartford, Connecticut 06106

The sculpture was commissioned under the supervision of the State Commission on Sculpture and installed in 1878. For further reading see: Marion Hepburn Grant's "In and About Hartford-Tours and Tales," (Hartford, Connecticut Historical Society, 1978), pg. 193; and The Hartford Courant, June 2, 1985 (Northeast Magazine supplement on State Capitol), pg. 21.

For related unpublished source materials see: "Hartford's Outdoor Sculpture," exhibition catalogue (April 1981), Trinity College, Hartford, pg. 43; background materials for exhibit on state-commissioned sculpture prepared by Robert Xaver Johnson, 1988 (State Archives, Connecticut State Library, Hartford); and "A Grand Restoration Project," (prepared by League of Women Voters of Connecticut, Education fund, for Capitol information and tours, n.d.).

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.

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