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...
Wroble, Stephen A.,
Portrait male -- La Salle, Robert Cavelier de
Occupation -- Other
Ethnic -- French
Dress -- Historic
Object -- Other
Outdoor Sculpture -- Michigan -- Belleville
Sculpture
La Salle Monument, (sculpture).
Artist:
Wroble, Stephen A., sculptor.
Title:
La Salle Monument, (sculpture).
Dates:
1985. Dedicated Aug. 4, 1985.
Medium:
Sculpture: synthetic stone; Base: Brick over stainless steel frame.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 7 ft. 10 in. x 1 ft. 8 in. x 2 ft. 1 in.; Base: approx. 5 ft. 4 in. x 4 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 3 in.
Inscription:
(On sculpture:) WROBLE (Plaque on base:) RENE ROBERT CAVELIER/SIEUR DE LA SALLE/IN THE SPRING OF 1680 LA SALLE TRAVERSED THIS AREA/ON THE HURON RIVER DURING HIS TREK TO THE EAST./A GIFT FROM/PARK E. AND EDNA MAE GREGORY/SCULPTOR STEPHEN A. WROBLE/1985 signed
Description:
Standing figure of man, dressed in knee-length open coat, wide ruffled tie at neck, and wide-brimmed hat. His proper left knee is slightly bent. Proper left hand rests on top of tree stump and proper right hand holds a pipe. Figure stands on brick base.
Subject:
Portrait male -- La Salle, Robert Cavelier de -- Full length
Occupation -- Other -- Explorer
Ethnic -- French
Dress -- Historic -- Seventeenth Century Dress
Object -- Other -- Pipe
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Michigan -- Belleville
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Belleville, 6 Main, Belleville, Michigan
Located Victory Park, Huron River Drive, Belleville, Michigan
Remarks:
Commissioned by Park E. and Edna Mae Gregory as a gift to the city. IAS files contain related article from Belleville Enterprise (Michigan), Aug. 7, 1985, pg. 1 and copy of La Salle Day program from dedication of sculpture, which includes details of creation and casting of sculpture.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Michigan survey, 1993.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Michigan History (Jan.-Feb. 1993), pg. 4.
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 MI000023
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
MI000023
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
