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Iron Horse Legacy, Nebraska Landscape 1871-1872, (sculpture). Artist:  Tschetter, Jay, sculptor. Yankee Hill Brick and Tile, fabricator. Title:  Iron Horse Legacy, Nebraska Landscape 1871-1872, (sculpture). Dates:  1990. Copyrighted 1990. Medium:  Carved and colored brick. Dimensions:  Mural: approx. 15 x 40 x 2 ft.; Adjoining planter: approx. 1 ft. 9 in. x 30 ft. x 5 ft. (25 tons). Inscription:  unsigned Description:  Colored brick mural of a smoke-billowing train crossing the prairie against a brilliant sky. Beside the tracks is a herd of buffalo grazing. The tracks of the train overrun into an adjoining planter. A sculpted skull of a horned animal sits in the planter next to the tracks. Subject:  Travel -- Land -- Train Landscape -- Nebraska Animal -- Buffalo History -- United States -- Westward Expansion Object Type:  Mural Outdoor Sculpture -- Nebraska -- Lincoln Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Lincoln, Office of the Mayor, 555 South 10th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508 Located Iron Horse Park, Exterior wall of Burlington Northern Railroad Station, Lincoln Station, Lincoln, Nebraska Remarks:  IAS files contain a newsclipping from the Lincoln Journal-Star dated Aug. 18, 1989, detailing the selection process and giving the cost of the mural's design, construction, and installation at $50,626. IAS files also contain the transcription of a nearby plaque and a related newsclipping from the Lincoln Journal-Star, Aug. 3, 1990. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Nebraska 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 NE000077   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NE000077 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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