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    		• Concepcion, Tomas,
     
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    		• Fonderia Cavallari,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Balli, Jose Nicolas
     
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    		• Occupation -- Religion
     
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    		• Emblem -- Cross
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Spanish
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- South Padre Island
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Padre Jose Nicolas Balli, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Concepcion, Tomas, sculptor.
    Fonderia Cavallari, founder.
    Title: 
    Padre Jose Nicolas Balli, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1980. Cast 1981. Dedicated Dec. 6, 1981.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete, granite.
    Inscription: 
    Tomas Concepcion (On plaque on front of base:) PADRE ISLAND OFF THE SOUTH TEXAS COAST IS NAMED FOR PADRE JOSE NICOLAS BALLI (177?-1829) WHOSE FAMILY MIGRATED FROM SPAIN IN 1569 AND BECAME LARGE LANDOWNERS IN THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY. IN 1800 BALLI APPLIED TO KING CHARLES IV OF SPAIN FOR 11 1/2 LEAGUES OF LAND ON THE ISLAND, AND IN 1804 STARTED ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, SANTA CRUZ. PADRE BALLI SERVED AS COLLECTOR OF FINANCES FOR ALL THE CHURCHES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND FOUNDED ITS FIRST MISSION IN PRESENT CAMERON COUNTY. PADRE BALLI'S MINISTRY WAS A GREAT INFLUENCE ON THE LIVES OF EARLY SETTLERS (1983) signed
    Description: 
    Full-length portrait of Jose Nicolas Balli. He wears a priest's cassock and holds a cross in his proper right hand. His arms are outspread as if gesturing. The bronze sculpture stands on a granite and concrete base.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Balli, Jose Nicolas -- Full length
    Occupation -- Religion -- Clergy
    Emblem -- Cross
    Ethnic -- Spanish
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- South Padre Island
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Cameron County, Parks Department, Isla Blanca Park, South Padre Island, Texas 78597
    Located Park Road 100, South Padre Island, Texas
    Remarks: 
    Balli started the first settlement on South Padre Island in 1804. The sculpture was commissioned by Mrs. Frank Yturria of Brownsville, and was erected by the county at a cost of $40,000. IAS files contain copies of related dedication ceremony program; and related article from The Texas Beachcomber, Nov. 1986.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Texas survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    The Texas Beachcomber, Nov. 1986, pg. 3.
    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 TX001153
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