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    		• White Bronze Monument Company,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Bland, Richard Parks
     
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    		• Occupation -- Political
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Lebanon
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Richard Parks Bland, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    White Bronze Monument Company, founder.
    Title: 
    Richard Parks Bland, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Bland Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated June 1902.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: cast iron; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture and upper base: approx. H. 12 ft. 8 in. x W. 4 ft.; Lower base: approx. H. 2 ft. x W. 63 in.
    Inscription: 
    Western White Bronze Co Des Moines/Iowa (Lower proper left side of upper base, raised lettering:) RICHARD PARKS BLAND/ERECTED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE DEAD STATESMAN/AT LEBANON, MISSOURI/HIS OLD HOME, THE MONTICELLO OF THE WEST (Lower front of upper base, raised lettering:) I DO SPEAK FOR THE GREAT MASSES OF THE MISSISSIPPI/VALLEY, WHEN I SAY THAT WE WILL NOT SUBMIT TO THE/DOMINATION OF ANY POLITICAL PART, HOWEVER MUCH/WE MAY LOVE IT, THAT LAYS THE SACRIFICING HAND/UPON SILVER AND WILL DEMONETIZE IT unsigned Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    Portrait of Richard Parks Bland, depicted standing with his proper right arm upraised and his proper left hand on his hip, his proper left leg extended. He has a beard and moustache and wears an open jacket over a vest. The upper base is ornate and multitiered, with a silver dollar-like coin on the front inscribed "E. Plurbus (sic) Unum 1895," and a constitution scroll without words on the proper left side. The entire memorial is mounted upon a short, square base.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Bland, Richard Parks -- Full length
    Occupation -- Political -- Congressman
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Lebanon
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Lebanon, Adams & Second Street, Laclede County Courthouse, Lebanon, Missouri
    Located Laclede County Courthouse, Adams & Second Street, Lebanon, Missouri
    Remarks: 
    Monument commemorates Richard "Silver Dick" Park Bland (1835-1899), a Lebanon native and Congressman from 1873 to 1895, influential in national politics, especially in his promotion of free silver as the national currency. He also competed for President as a Democrat. The monument was erected by his friends, and dedicated on the third anniversary of his burial. IAS files contain articles from Laclede County Sentinel, June 20, 1902; Sarah Guitar's text "Missouri Historical Review, 1924-25," pg. 572, 578-579; and The Ozarks Mountaineer (July/Aug. 1993): pg. 41.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Missouri survey, 1995.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    The Ozarks Mountaineer (July/Aug. 1993): pg. 41.
    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 MO000365
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