Monument to Confederate Women, (sculpture).

Monument to Confederate Women, (sculpture).

Schweizer, J. Otto, 1863-1955, sculptor.

Bureau Brothers, founder.

Monument to Confederate Women, (sculpture).

Mother of the South, (sculpture).

Dedicated April 30, 1913.

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Sculpture: bronze; Upper base: marble; mid-base: syentite; Lower base: concrete.

Sculpture: approx. 7 ft. 2 in. x 54 in. x 51 in.; Base: approx. 11 ft. 6 1/2 in. x 17 ft. 7 in. x 17 ft. 7 in.

(On proper right lower edge of sculpture:) J. Otto Schweizer (On proper left lower edge of sculpture:) Bureau Bros./Bronze Founders, Phila./enna. (On front middle of base, on bronze plaque:) TO THE CONFEDERATE WOMEN OF ARKANSAS/1861-1865/WHOSE PIOUS MINISTRATIONS TO OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS/SOOTHED THE LAST HOURS OF THOSE WHO DIED FOR THE/OBJECT OF THEIR TENDEREST LOVE, WHOSE DOMESTIC/LABORS CONTRIBUTED MUCH TO SUPPLY THE WANTS OF/OUR DEFENDERS IN THE FIELD, WHOSE JEALOUS FAITH/IN OUR CAUSE SHOWN A GUIDING STAR, UNDIMMED BY THE/DARKEST CLOUDS OF WAR: WHOSE FORTITUDE SUSTAINED/THEM UNDER ALL THE/PRIVATIONS WO WHICH THEY WERE SUBJECTED,/AND WHOSE PATRIOTISM WILL TEACH THEIR SONS/TO EMULATE THE DEEDS OF THE SIRES."/THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THE STATE OF ARKANSAS AND THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS. signed Founder's mark appears.

A bronze sculpture of a family of four. The mother is seated and wears a long dress. The daughter is crying and leaning on her mother's proper left shoulder. The young son stands to his mother's proper right. His proper left hand is on her proper right knee and he holds a drum and drumsticks in his proper right hand. The father stands facing the mother. The mother clasps the father's proper right hand in both of her hands. The father wears a uniform and holds a brimmed hat in his proper left hand. He has a pouch at his back waist and a blanket roll over his proper left shoulder. The sculpture rests on a base with six tiers.

History -- United States -- Civil War

Figure group -- Family -- Mother & Child

Figure group -- Family -- Father & Child

Allegory -- Life -- Womanhood

Occupation -- Military -- Soldier

Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform

Outdoor Sculpture -- Arkansas -- Little Rock

Administered by State of Arkansas, Secretary of State, Arkansas State Capitol Building, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201

Located Arkansas State Capitol, South lawn, corner of West 7th & Marshall, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201

IAS files include photograph and caption from Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR), May 27, 1986, pg. 9-A. The sculpture was cleaned, ca. 1972-1979.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arkansas survey, 1992.

Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR), May 27, 1986, pg. 9-A.

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