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Trails End, (sculpture). Artist:  Hughes, Holly, sculptor. Beck, Pat, sculptor. Title:  Trails End, (sculpture). Dates:  1994. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Mixed media, including adobe, rubber tires, stove pipe, chicken wire, a wagon wheel and rope, painted. Dimensions:  5 pieces. Adobe wall: approx. 8 ft. x 27 in. x 14 in.; Pioneer woman: approx. 51 x 25 x 38 in.; Cowboy: approx. 10 x 5 x 5 ft.; Standing bull: approx. H. 64 in. x D. 80 in.; Sitting bull: approx. 38 x 44 x 98 in. Inscription:  (On front of fence, with rope:) TRAIL'S END/AdObE BY PAT BECK/MEtAl BY Holly HUGheS/19 (two small inscribed plaques) 94 (On one small plaque:) A Community Project/for the Village/of Magdalena (On other small plaque:) Funded by the/AIPP Program of/The New Mexico/Arts Division Description:  An installation at entryway to rodeo grounds. Includes a large curved adobe wall with a wagon wheel at the top. Local school children ornamented the wall's surface with hand prints and other decorations. Next to the wall is a seated figure of a pioneer woman, also made of adobe. She wears a sunbonnet, tied in a bow beneath her chin, eyeglasses, an ankle-length dress and a long-sleeved sweater. Behind her, off to the side, is a cowboy sitting on a wood fence with rope inscription. The cowboy is made of chicken wire, stove pipe and other recycled materials. He has a horseshoe moustache and metal cowboy hat, belt and boots. Behind the adobe wall, to the proper left of the cowboy, are two bulls also made of recycled metal. One bull is standing. The other, seated, is made of rubber tires and other recycled materials. Subject:  Western Figure group Occupation -- Other -- Pioneer Occupation -- Other -- Cowboy Dress -- Historic -- Pioneer Dress Dress -- Accessory -- Eye wear Animal -- Cattle Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Magdalena Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Socorro, Mayor's Office, Magdalena, New Mexico Located Magdalena Rodeo Grounds, Entrance, Magdalena, New Mexico Remarks:  A community art project funded by the AIPP (Art in Public Places) program of the New Mexico Arts Division. The metal sculpture was created by Holly Hughes; the adobe pieces by Pat Beck. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Mexico survey, 1995. 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 NM000374   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NM000374 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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