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...
Kitson, Theo Alice Ruggles,
History -- United States
Figure male -- Full length
Occupation -- Military
Object -- Weapon
Dress -- Uniform
Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Everett
Sculpture
The Hiker, (sculpture).
Artist:
Kitson, Theo Alice Ruggles, 1871-1932, sculptor.
Title:
The Hiker, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Spanish War Veterans Memorial, (sculpture).
Dates:
1927.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. H. 12 ft. x W. 4 ft.
Inscription:
(Base, on front:) CUBA/CHINA/PHILIPPINES (Base, on cross, each side:) Philippine Islands/Cuba/Porto Rico/USA (Base, around center of cross:) Spanish War Veterans 1898-1902 (Base, bronze plaque on back:) 1898/ERECTED BY/1902/CITY OF EVERETT/Lester d. Chisholm, Mayor/Monument Commission/Gen. E. LeRoy Sweetser/Daniel R. W. Murdock/Wesley G. Collings/Benj. P. Upham/Sidney L. Bishop/1927
Description:
A standing figure of a Spanish-American War soldier carrying a rifle horizontally across his hips with both hands on the rifle. His proper right foot is forward slightly. A canteen and a rectangular bag are strapped across his back. The figure stands on a stone base adorned with a large cross on the front.
Subject:
History -- United States -- Spanish American War
Figure male -- Full length
Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
Object -- Weapon -- Gun
Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Everett
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Everett, Monuments Commission, Everett, Massachusetts
Located Parlin Library, 410 Broadway Streets, Everett, Massachusetts
Remarks:
IAS files contain an excerpt from "The History of the Frederick E. Parlin Library, pg. 21; and a newspaper clipping from Inside Everett/Everett News, Oct. 3, 1991, pg. 7.
References:
Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Inside Everett/Everett News, Oct. 3, 1991, pg. 7.
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 87740195
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
87740195
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
Login
Help
