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Cochise County Courthouse Plaques, (sculpture). Artist:  Sanderson, Phillips, 1908-1987, sculptor. Title:  Cochise County Courthouse Plaques, (sculpture). Dates:  Commissioned Aug. 1936. 1936. Medium:  Cast plaster with gilding or bronze paint. Dimensions:  8 plaques. Each: approx. 25 1/2 x 37 x 1 1/2 in. Inscription:  (On each plaque, various locations:) R. Phillips Sanderson '36 signed Description:  Low relief plaques depict various significant people and events in Arizona and Cochise County history. The first plaque shows Coronado's army, led by Estevan, arriving in the Southwest in 1539. An equestrian figure of Coronado and his army in 1540 is on the second plaque. Also present are Franciscan monks and a pair of oxen. The third plaque shows a Mormon pioneer family traveling west as part of a wagon train in 1846. An 1860 Pony Express rider is shown in the fourth panel. Portraits of Apache leaders Cochise and Geronimo are depicted in the fifth panel. The sixth plaque is a composite of images of Tombstone, Arizona, once the County seat. Images include Ed Schieffelin, discoverer of Tombstone's silver lode in 1877, a stagecoach, horses, dancers a hand of cards and an outlaw at the gallows. The seventh plaque is a composite of the mining industry and the eighth plaque is a composite of the cattle industry, featuring cowboys and a herd of cattle. Subject:  History -- United States -- Arizona Portrait male -- Estevan, Occupation -- Military -- Soldier Portrait male -- Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de Equestrian Occupation -- Religion -- Monk History -- United States -- Westward Expansion Animal -- Cattle Figure group -- Family Religion -- Mormonism Occupation -- Other -- Pioneer Architecture -- Vehicle -- Wagon History -- United States -- Pony Express Portrait male -- Cochise Portrait male -- Geronimo Ethnic -- Indian -- Apache Portrait male -- Schieffelin, Ed Occupation -- Industry -- Mining Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Gambling Performing Arts -- Dance State of Being -- Death -- Execution Occupation -- Other -- Cowboy Animal -- Cattle Object Type:  Relief Architectural component Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Cochise County, Department of Facilities & Solid Waste Management, 619 Melody Lane, Building C, Bisbee, Arizona 85603 Located Cochise County Courthouse, Quality Hill, Main Hall, Bisbee, Arizona Remarks:  Commissioned as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. Mark Vories, director of WPA art in Bisbee, helped plan the series. IAS files include an excerpt from "The Sculpture of Raymond Phillips Sanderson," by Tamara Jane Snively, an abstract of a Master's Thesis, Arizona State University, January 1973, and an excerpt from "The WPA Guide to 1930s Arizona," (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989). References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arizona survey, 1994. 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 AZ000665   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture AZ000665 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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