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...
True Form Productions,
Homage -- Watroba, Walter
Occupation -- Service
Dress -- Uniform
Object -- Other
Sculpture
Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Chicago
Memorial to Fallen Firefighters, (sculpture).
Artist:
True Form Productions, founder.
Title:
Memorial to Fallen Firefighters, (sculpture).
Dates:
2009.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Bronze.
Description:
The bronze memorial features a firefighter's hat resting atop of a pair of boots with a firefighter's jacket hanging above from a hook on a vertical beam. The lower edge of the firefighter's jacket bears the name WATROBA in honor of firefighter Walter Watroba of Engine Company 13 who lost his life fighting a Chicago fire on Nov. 22, 1976. The memorial includes a bronze American flag displayed on two vertical supports atop a separate base adjacent to the firefighter's uniform.
Subject:
Homage -- Watroba, Walter
Occupation -- Service -- Fireman
Dress -- Uniform -- Fireman Uniform
Object -- Other -- Flag
Object Type:
Sculpture
Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Chicago
Owner:
Chicago Fire Department Station 13, 259 North Columbus Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Remarks:
The memorial was created by True Form Productions with creative consultation provided by Chicago firefighter John Alinez. Metals were donated by SIPI Metals Corporation. The memorial is dedicated to the memory of fallen Chicago firefighter Walter Watroba and all Chicago firefighters who have lost their lives fighting fires in Chicago.
References:
Inventory Staff, 2012.
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 71501032
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
71501032
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