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Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste,
Figure female -- Full length
Allegory -- Civic
Object -- Written Matter
Object -- Other
Dress -- Historic
Dress -- Accessory
Outdoor Sculpture -- Kansas -- Leavenworth
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Sculpture
Statue of Liberty Replica, (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown, sculptor.
Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste, 1834-1904, sculptor. (copy after)
Title:
Statue of Liberty Replica, (sculpture).
Dates:
1950.
Medium:
Figure: copper or bronze, cast; Base: limestone and topped with cement; Planter: limestone.
Dimensions:
Figure: approx. H. 8 ft. x Diam. 22 in.; Base: approx. H. 7 1/2 ft. x W. 3 ft.; Planter: approx. H. 2 ft. x Diam. 15 ft.
Inscription:
(Metal plaque on front of base, raised:) 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 unsigned
Description:
Female figure, representing Liberty, stands wearing a long, flowing robe and a pointed headpiece. Her proper right arm is raised, holding a lit torch. Her proper left arm cradles a tablet. She stands atop a limestone block base with an inscribed plaque on its front. The base stands in the center of a raised planter shaped like an eleven-pointed star.
Subject:
Figure female -- Full length
Allegory -- Civic -- Liberty
Object -- Written Matter
Object -- Other -- Torch
Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress
Dress -- Accessory -- Hat
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Kansas -- Leavenworth
Copy
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Leavenworth, Parks and Recreation, 123 South Esplande, Leavenworth, Kansas 66048
Located City Hall, Lawn, northeast corner of 5th & Shawnee, Leavenworth, Kansas
Remarks:
Presented by the Boy Scouts of the Kaw Council. IAS files contain a related article from The Kansas City Times, July 5, 1950.
This is 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.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kansas survey, 1994.
SOS Assessment Award, 2000.
SOS Conservation Treatment Award, 2001.
Illustration:
Image on file.
The Kansas City Times, July 5, 1950.
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 KS000247
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Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
KS000247
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