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Whyght, Lew,
Occupation -- Industry
Object -- Tool
Figure male -- Full length
Outdoor Sculpture -- Tennessee -- Copperhill
Sculpture
Copper Miner Statue 1853-1987, (sculpture).
Artist:
Whyght, Lew, sculptor.
Title:
Copper Miner Statue 1853-1987, (sculpture).
Dates:
July 1987. Dedicated July 1987.
Medium:
100 year old pine tree with fiberglass coating on concrete base.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 6 ft. 6 in. x 29 in. x 53 in.; Base: approx. 16 x 47 x 47 in.
Inscription:
Lew Whyght signed
Description:
A depiction of a miner carved from a one hundred year old pine tree. The miner holds a pick in his proper left hand and a lunch pail in his proper right hand. He has a full beard and moustache and wears a miner's helmet with a light. He is dressed in boots and coveralls. The pick the miner holds was carved from a beam of a log cabin more than one hundred years old. The sculpture stands on a round wooden plinth on a rectangular concrete base.
Subject:
Occupation -- Industry -- Mining
Object -- Tool -- Axe
Figure male -- Full length
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Tennessee -- Copperhill
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Copperhill, 160 Main Street, P. O. Box 640, Copperhill, Tennessee 37317
Located Ocoee Street & Highway #68, Copperhill, Tennessee
Remarks:
Inscription on bronze plaque mounted on boulder of raw ore reads: DEDICATED TO/THE MEMORY OF/COPPER MINES/1853 - 1987. IAS files contain a related article from Polk County News (Polk County, TN), July 8, 1987, pg. 1, which describes the dedication ceremony.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Tennessee survey, 1992.
Polk County News (Polk County, TN), July 8, 1987, pg. 1.
Illustration:
Polk County News (Polk County, TN), July 8, 1987, pg. 1.
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 TN000233
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Inventory of American Sculpture
TN000233
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