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Zaffardi, Umberto,
Harris Granite Quarries Company,
Allen Monuments,
Portrait male -- Reeves, James Travis
Performing Arts -- Music
Performing Arts -- Music
Performing Arts -- Music
Object -- Musical Instrument
Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- Carthage
Sculpture
Gentleman Jim Reeves, (sculpture).
Artist:
Zaffardi, Umberto, sculptor.
Harris Granite Quarries Company, fabricator.
Allen Monuments, contractor.
Title:
Gentleman Jim Reeves, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
James Travis Reeves, (sculpture).
Dates:
1965.
Medium:
Sculpture: granite; Base: stone.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 6 ft. x 28 in. x 18 in.; Base: approx. 8 x 5 x 5 ft.
Inscription:
(On bottom right side of base:) "SCULPTOR - UMBERTO ZAFFARDI---BUILDER - HARRIS GRANITE QUARRIES CO./CONTRACTOR - ALLEN MONUMENT CO. INC" (On front of base:) "IF I, A LOWLY SINGER, DRY ONE TEAR/OR SOOTHE ONE HUMBLE HUMAN HEART IN PAIN/THEN MY HOMELY VERSE TO GOD IS DEAR/AND NOT ONE STANZA HAS BEEN SUNG IN VAIN" signed
Description:
Jim Reeves stands with both hands resting on the top of his guitar which he holds in front of him. The sculpture is mounted on a curved stone base that resembles the neck of a guitar. A long walkway leads to the sculpture. Inlaid terrazzo tile in the walkway forms the shape of a guitar. Inside the guitar is a 45 rpm record.
Subject:
Portrait male -- Reeves, James Travis -- Full length
Performing Arts -- Music -- Voice
Performing Arts -- Music -- Guitar
Performing Arts -- Music -- Producer
Object -- Musical Instrument -- Guitar
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- Carthage
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Jim Reeves Enterprises, Drawer 1, Madison, Tennessee 37115
Located U.S. Highway 79, 3 miles east of town, Carthage, Texas
Remarks:
The sculpture was installed by Mary Reeves as a tribute to her late husband, singer Jim Reeves. Reeves was a country and pop music star during the 1950s and 1960s until his untimely death in a plane crash at the age of 39. The inscription on the record label in the guitar on the walkway reads: GENTLEMAN JIM/TIME/AUG. 20, 1923/JULY 31, 1964/JIM REEVES/PRODUCER/GOD.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Texas survey, 1993.
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 TX000947
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Inventory of American Sculpture
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