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Taylor, Robert,
Taylor, Larry,
Taylor, Raymon,
Object -- Flower
Animal -- Insect
Animal -- Insect
Animal -- Insect
Animal -- Squirrel
Animal -- Raccoon
Animal -- Bird
Abstract
Outdoor Sculpture -- New Hampshire -- Alstead
Sculpture
(Welcome to Pratt Rock), (sculpture).
Artist:
Taylor, Robert, sculptor.
Taylor, Larry, sculptor.
Taylor, Raymon, sculptor.
Title:
(Welcome to Pratt Rock), (sculpture).
Dates:
1995. Installed summer 1995.
Medium:
Scrap steel, including automobile parts, painted.
Dimensions:
Approx. 8 ft. 4 in. x 5 ft. 3 in. x 40 in.
Inscription:
(On front of boulder:) Raymon/#57 (On back of one of leaves of plant:) 96/Raymon 199(...illegible number) (In cutout letters in brackets on front of sculpture, painted yellow with black edges:) WELCOME/TO/PRATT/ROCK signed
Description:
A scrap-metal welcome sign marking the trail to Pratt Rock depicts plants growing out of a boulder, insects, birds, a squirrel, and a raccoon. The boulder is painted gray and made out of scrap plate steel and what appears to be an old fender. On one side of the boulder are two bees or hornets, with cylindrical pipe bodies, wings of fan blades, heads of engine parts, and tails of steel rod. Both are painted yellow with black stripes. Straddling over the bees is an insect, probably a mosquito, painted brown, with rod legs. Above the insects is another insect with fan blade wings, painted black. On the rear top of the boulder is a squirrel made of cutout steel plate eating a nut, painted red and black, and a plate steel raccoon painted with black and brown stripes. Rising from the center of the boulder are two plants made of green-painted pipes, with green leaves, and ten flowers made of engine fans, painted yellow, with black-painted centers. Perched or flying among the plants are various insects and birds, including a brown bird, a gray bird, and a woodpecker with black and white stripes and red head, and a flying butterfly with four fan blade wings, painted blue and white. The sculpture is set directly on the ground.
Subject:
Object -- Flower
Animal -- Insect -- Bee
Animal -- Insect -- Mosquito
Animal -- Insect -- Butterfly
Animal -- Squirrel
Animal -- Raccoon
Animal -- Bird -- Woodpecker
Abstract
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- New Hampshire -- Alstead
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Town of Alstead, P. O. Box 86, Alstead, New Hampshire 03602
Located Trailhead to Pratt Rock, south side of Pratts Road, just east of intersection with Walpole Valley Road, Alstead, New Hampshire
Remarks:
The sculpture is the fifty-seventh sculpture completed by artist Raymon Taylor during 1995. It was a gift from the artists. IAS files contain an excerpt from Helen H. Frink's "Alstead Through the Years, 1763-1990," Alstead Historical Society, 192, pg. 423-424.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Hampshire survey, 1996.
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 NH000347
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Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
NH000347
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