Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Taylor, Raymon,
Taylor, Robert,
Taylor, James,
Abstract
Animal -- Insect
Homage -- Field, William L. W.
Occupation -- Education
Occupation -- Science
Outdoor Sculpture -- New Hampshire -- Alstead
Sculpture
The Praying Mantis, (sculpture).
Artist:
Taylor, Raymon, sculptor.
Taylor, Robert, sculptor.
Taylor, James, sculptor.
Title:
The Praying Mantis, (sculpture).
Dates:
ca. 1988.
Medium:
Scrap steel, snowplow parts, automobile fan blades, and a pitchfork, painted.
Dimensions:
Approx. 6 ft. 3 in. x 9 ft. 9 in. x 10 ft.
Inscription:
(Proper right side of body: illegible inscription that could be "Raymon")
Description:
A scrap-metal sculpture of a praying mantis sitting, its two front legs raised, about to eat a smaller insect in its grasp. The body of the mantis is composed of an old snowplow and other pieces of scrap steel, with the rear of the body a cylindrical tank. It has eight legs, the two rear legs made of strips of plate metal and the other legs made of pipes. The neck and head are made of scrap parts, with a pitchfork on top of its head. The smaller insect has a scrap metal body, two large round eyes, and four wings made of automobile fan blades. The mantis is painted green, with black eyes. The smaller insect has a black body, and wings with pink and black patterns. The sculpture is set directly on the ground.
Subject:
Abstract
Animal -- Insect -- Praying Mantis
Homage -- Field, William L. W.
Occupation -- Education -- Teacher
Occupation -- Science -- Entomologist
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- New Hampshire -- Alstead
Sculpture
Owner:
Located Twombly property, Alstead Center, Route 12A, west side, south of Hill Road, Alstead, New Hampshire
Owned by Twombly, Robert, 605 Bellevue Place, Austin, Texas 78705
Remarks:
The sculpture commemorates William L. W. "Bugs Bill" Field, grandfather of the owner, Robert Twombly. William Fields was an entomologist, and headmaster at Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts, who died in 1964. Robert Twombly suggested to artist Robert Taylor that a sculpture of a praying mantis would be a fitting homage to his grandfather. IAS files contain a related excerpt from Helen H. Frink's "Alstead Through the Years, 1763-1990," Alstead Historical Society, 1992, pg. 423-424.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Hampshire 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 NH000334
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
NH000334
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact
Login
Help
