Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
General Keyword
Artist Keyword
Title Keyword
Subject Keyword
Object Type Keyword
Owner Keyword
Control Number Keyword
Refine Search
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Viquesney, E. M.,
History -- United States
Figure male -- Full length
Occupation -- Military
Dress -- Uniform
Object -- Weapon
Object -- Weapon
Outdoor Sculpture -- Alabama -- Birmingham
Sculpture
Spirit of the American
Doughboy
, (sculpture).
Artist:
Viquesney, E. M., 1876-1946, sculptor.
Title:
Spirit of the American
Doughboy
, (sculpture).
Dates:
Dedicated Nov. 11, 1923.
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Base: limestone.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 6 ft. x 45 in. x 5 ft.; Base: approx. 90 x 38 x 38 in.
Inscription:
E. M. Viquesney (On plaque on base:) IN MEMORY/OF THE COMRADES WHO/GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE/SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY/DURING/THE WORLD WAR./PRESENTED TO/
BIRMINGHAM
POST NO. 1/OF/THE AMERICAN LEGION./BY/THE GREEK-AMERICAN/CITIZENS./
BIRMINGHAM
, ALABAMA./ARMISTICE DAY, 1923. signed
Description:
Full-length figure of a uniformed World War I soldier. He holds a hand grenade aloft in his proper right hand and his bayonet in his proper left hand.
Subject:
History -- United States -- World War I
Figure male -- Full length
Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
Object -- Weapon -- Gun
Object -- Weapon -- Grenade
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Alabama --
Birmingham
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of
Birmingham
, Department of Parks & Recreation, 400 Graymont Avenue,
Birmingham
, Alabama 35204
Located Linn Park, Park Place & 20th Street North,
Birmingham
, Alabama
Remarks:
Gift of the Greek-American citizens to the
Birmingham
Post no. 1 of the American Legion. IAS files include information from the files of Russell Brothers & Alabama Photo Room Collection, which describes an identical statue in Anniston, Alabama.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Alabama 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 AL000218
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
AL000218
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.0
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact
Login
Help
