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    White Deer, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    White Deer, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Installed Oct. 24, 1968.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: cast iron, painted; Base: concrete, painted.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 3 ft. x D. 4 ft.; Base: approx. H. 13 ft. x Diam. 4 ft. (500 lbs.).
    Inscription: 
    (Historical marker on north side of base:) White Deer/White Deer/3rd and Main Streets/Name taken from nearby creek so called by an Indian/legend of white deer feeding there. Site of county's first/water well, drilled at N Bar N Ranch, 1887. Also/headquarters for White Deer Land (formerly Francklyn/Land and Cattle Co., a British syndicate with 630,000/acres of panhandle land) which in 1902 sold its acreage/for small farms and ranches. Located .5 mile east on/railroad in 1906, it became supply town for settlers,/Present townsite founded in 1908. Oil boom came in/1920's. Is shipping point for grain and cattle. 1965
    Description: 
    A white deer stands with head lifted. The deer once had antlers. The sculpture is welded to a steel plate, atop a concrete arched platform.
    Subject: 
    Animal -- Deer
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- White Deer
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    City of White Deer, 317 South Main Street, P. O. Box 1166, White Deer, Texas 79097
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Spiro, Oklahoma
    Remarks: 
    The metal deer replaces an original concrete deer erected on the platform base in 1918 by an itinerant concrete worker. The original deer was replaced because of vandalism and weather effects. The new metal sculpture was acquired in Spiro, Oklahoma and installed in 1968. Both sculptures cost $100 each. The Texas Historical Marker was placed on the base in 1966. The metal sculpture has been painted several times.
    IAS files contain a June 16, 1993 news release from the Carson County Historical Commission. IAS files contain related articles from the Amarillo Daily News, Feb. 22, 1969; the White Deer News, Nov. 7, 1968; and May 27, 1993. IAS files also contain excerpt from Ann Ruff's "Amazing Texas Monuments and Museums," Houston: Lone Star Books, 1984.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Texas survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Amarillo Daily News, Feb. 2, 1969.
    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 TX000730
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