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...
Unknown,
Animal -- Horse
Homage -- House, Marcus Wood
Religion -- New Testament
Outdoor Sculpture -- Arkansas -- Pangburn
Gravestone
Sculpture
(House Memorial), (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown, sculptor.
Title:
(House Memorial), (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Rampant Stallion, (sculpture).
Dates:
Dedicated 1975.
Medium:
Sculpture: cast fiberglass; Foundation: granite.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 8 x 6 x 6 ft.; Foundation: approx. H. 6 in. x W. 3 ft.
Inscription:
(On marker on front of foundation:) MARCUS WOOD HOUSE/ANGEL OF GOD/5-1-56 TO 2-20-75/18YRS 9 MO 19 DAYS/AND I SAW HEAVEN OPENED AND BEHOLD A WHITE HORSE/AND HE THAT SAT UPON HIM WAS CALLED FAITHFUL AND TRUE/REVELATIONS 19:11 unsigned
Description:
A rampant stallion rears upward, with its tail touching the ground. The stallion stands on a foundation with a gravemarker for Marcus Wood House, 1956-1975, before it.
Subject:
Animal -- Horse
Homage -- House, Marcus Wood
Religion -- New Testament -- Revelations
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Arkansas -- Pangburn
Gravestone
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Henderson Cemetery Board, Box 35, Pangburn, Arkansas 72121
Located Henderson Cemetery, Route 124 south side, one mile east of junction of Route 124 & Route 110, Pangburn, Arkansas
Remarks:
Reportedly, Marcus Wood House's Bible was open to the passages of Revelations inscribed on his gravemarker when his body was found. Sculpture was added to the gravesite sometime after burial. Obituary notice appears in Daily Citizen (Searcy, AR), Feb. 21, 1975, pg. 3.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arkansas survey, 1992.
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 AR000127
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
AR000127
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
