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Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste,
Figure female -- Full length
Allegory -- Civic
Object -- Written Matter
Object -- Other
Dress -- Historic
Dress -- Accessory
Copy
Sculpture
Statue of Liberty Replica, (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown, sculptor.
Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste, 1834-1904, sculptor. (copy after)
Title:
Statue of Liberty Replica, (sculpture).
Dates:
Dedicated July 4, 1950. Relocated 1988.
Medium:
Tin (?).
Inscription:
(Inscriptions on tablet) unsigned
Description:
A female figure, representing Liberty, stands, wearing a long flowing robe and a headpiece. She holds an inscribed tablet in her bent proper left arm and a torch overhead in her proper right hand.
Subject:
Figure female -- Full length
Allegory -- Civic -- Liberty
Object -- Written Matter
Object -- Other -- Torch
Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress
Dress -- Accessory -- Hat
Object Type:
Copy
Sculpture
Owner:
Butler County Historical Society Museum, Eldorado, Kansas
Provenance:
Formerly located Butler County Courthouse, 205 West Central, Grounds, northwest corner, Eldorado, Kansas 67042 1950-1988.
Remarks:
This may be one of nearly 200 small replicas of Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty (IAS record 76003645) placed around the country as part of the Boy Scouts of America's 40th anniversary (1950). According to a March 1986 Fact Sheet from the Boy Scouts of America (on file in IAS), the idea for the project originated with Jack Whitaker, then Scout Commissioner of the Kansas City Area Council. The copper statues were manufactured by Friedley-Voshardt Co. (Chicago, IL) and purchased through the Kansas City Boy Scouts office.
The statue was originally installed at the Butler County Courthouse in Eldorado in 1950, mounted on top of a limestone base. In 1988, the statue, which had sustained vandalism and decay, was moved to the Butler County Historical Society Museum and replaced with another replica of the Statue of Liberty. Plaque on the original base reads: WITH THE FAITH AND COURAGE OF/THEIR FOREFATHERS WHO MADE/POSSIBLE THE FREEDOM OF THESE/UNITED STATES/THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA/DEDICATE THIS REPLICA OF THE/STATUE OF LIBERTY AS A PLEDGE/OF EVERLASTING FIDELITY AND/LOYALTY/40TH ANNIVERSARY CRUSADE TO/STRENGTHEN THE ARM OF LIBERTY/1950. IAS files contain dimensions for the original base. IAS files contain related articles from The Wichita Eagle-Beacon, Nov. 17, 1988; the Augusta Daily Gazette (Kansas), Nov. 14, 1988, pg. 3; The Sunflower Legionnaire, Dec., 1988; and the Eldorado Times (Kansas), Nov. 11 and 12, 1988.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kansas, Wichita survey, 1994.
Illustration:
Image on file.
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 KS000238
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Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
KS000238
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