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    		• Taft, Lorado Zadoc,
     
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    		• Wright, Henry,
     
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    		• Webster, Mary Hortense,
     
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    		• Bronze Incorporated,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Cherry, Henry Hardin
     
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    		• Occupation -- Education
     
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    		• Occupation -- Education
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Bowling Green
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Henry Hardin Cherry, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Taft, Lorado Zadoc, 1860-1936, sculptor.
    Wright, Henry, 1878-1936, landscape architect.
    Webster, Mary Hortense, assistant.
    Bronze Incorporated, founder.
    Title: 
    Henry Hardin Cherry, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Modelled 1934. Cast 1936. Installed 1937. Dedicated Nov. 16, 1937.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: pink granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 10 ft. x 42 1/2 in. x 36 in.; Base: approx. 60 x 71 x 64 1/2 in.
    Inscription: 
    Lorado Taft Sc 1936 Bronze Incorporated/Chicago, Ill. (Front of base, incised:) HENRY HARDIN CHERRY/NOVEMBER 16, 1864 - AUGUST 1, 1937/LEADER OF THE MOVEMENTS TO ESTABLISH KENTUCKY/NORMAL SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS COLLEGES/PRESIDENT SOUTHERN NORMAL SCHOOL 1892-1906/PRESIDENT OF WESTERN STATE KENTUCKY TEACHERS COLLEGE 1906-1937 (One side of base:) "No citizen can turn his back/upon the school without turning/his back upon the flag" (Rear of base, incised:) ERECTED BY HIS STUDENTS AND FRIENDS/1937" (Bronze plaque:) "The Last Work By/Lorado Taft/A Devoted Friend Of/Henry Hardin Cherry" (Other side of base:) "Educator/Inspirer of Youth/Philosopher" signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    Portrait of Henry Hardin Cherry standing in characteristic fashion, wearing a three-pieced suit and tie, his proper left thumb stuck in his pants pocket. The sculpture is mounted upon a graduated base, encircled by a chain link fence.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Cherry, Henry Hardin -- Full length
    Occupation -- Education -- University President
    Occupation -- Education -- Teacher
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Kentucky -- Bowling Green
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Western Kentucky University, Facilities Management, One Big Red Way, Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101
    Located Western Kentucky University, Entrance to Cherry Hall on 15th Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Entrance to Cherry Hall on 15th Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture commemorates Henry Hardin Cherry (1864-1937), a teacher who became President of Southern Normal School, 1892-1906, and Western Kentucky State Teachers College, 1906-1937, predecessors of Western Kentucky University. At the time of the dedication, the University was known as Western Kentucky State Teachers College. The project was conceived by friends of Cherry's, who developed it for three years without his knowledge, beginning in the late 1920s. Cherry did not want the sculpture erected during his lifetime. The sculpture cost $10,000, raised through contributions from faculty, friends, and citizens of Bowling Green. The names of the donors, and other records, are buried in a copper box beneath the base. The head was sculpted by Lorenzo Taft, who was a friend of Cherry's; the rest of the sculpture was done by Taft's understudies, including Mary Webster. Taft died soon after the completion of the model, before the sculpture was installed. Landscape architect Henry W. Wright selected the location for the sculpture. The sculpture was dedicated after Cherry's death, on his birthday.
    IAS files contain the following: Lowell Harrison's "Western Kentucky University," Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, pg. 107; Teachers College Heights 16 (Dec. 1937): pg. 12-15, 19; "Leader of the Movements to Establish Kentucky," pg. 4 (?). IAS files also contain a pamphlet entitled "Henry Hardin Cherry, November 16, 1864-August 1, 1937, Unveiled November 16, 1937."
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kentucky survey, 1994.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Harrison, Lowell, "Western Kentucky University," Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
    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 KY000250
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