Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Unknown,     Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste,     Figure female -- Full length     Allegory -- Civic     Dress -- Historic     Dress -- Accessory     Object -- Other     Object -- Written Matter     Outdoor Sculpture -- Oklahoma -- Blackwell     Copy     Sculpture

Statue of Liberty Replica, (sculpture). Artist:  Unknown, sculptor. Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste, 1834-1904, sculptor. (copy after) Title:  Statue of Liberty Replica, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Strengthen the Arm of Liberty, (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated July 1951. Medium:  Sculpture: metal; Base: concrete. Description:  Allegorical female figure, representing Liberty, stands holding a torch aloft in her proper right hand. A book or tablet is crooked in her proper left elbow. The figure wears Classical-style robes and a star-like crown. Subject:  Figure female -- Full length Allegory -- Civic -- Liberty Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress Dress -- Accessory -- Hat Object -- Other -- Torch Object -- Written Matter Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Oklahoma -- Blackwell Copy Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Blackwell, Parks Department, 221 West Blackwell, P. O. Box 350, Blackwell, Oklahoma 74631 Located Memorial Swimming Pool, 1400 South Main Street, Blackwell, Oklahoma Remarks:  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, Oklahoma survey, 1996. 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 OK000146   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture OK000146 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact