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    		• Zamudio, Cuauhtemoc,
     
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    		• Base, Irvin,
     
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    		• Spence Concrete Company,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Hidalgo, Miguel
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Mexican
     
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    		• Occupation -- Religion
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- Edinburg
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Padre Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Zamudio, Cuauhtemoc, sculptor.
    Base, Irvin, fabricator.
    Spence Concrete Company, contractor.
    Title: 
    Padre Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Father Hidalgo, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    March 1976. Dedicated March 13, 1976.
    Medium: 
    Bust: bronze; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Bust: approx. 41 x 27 x 19 in.; Base: approx. 60 x 39 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Texas Historical Subject marker on base:) PADRE MIGUEL HIDALGO Y COSTILLA/MIGUEL HIDALGO Y COSTILLA (1753-1811), FOR WHOM THE COUNTY/OF HIDALGO IS NAMED, WAS BORN NEAR GUANAJUATO, MEXICO WHILE THE COUNTRY WAS STILL UNDER SPANISH RULE. AFTER BEING ORDAINED A PRIEST IN 1779, HE SERVED CHURCHES IN COLIMA, SAN FELIPE AND DOLORES, WHERE HE EMERGED AS A CHAMPION OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHO FEARED THE COLONIAL SYSTEM WOULD NEVER ALLOW INDEPENDENCE AND JUSTICE FOR ALL CITIZENS. A FIRM BELIEVER IN ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE FROM THE MOTHER COUNTRY, HIDALGO WORKED TOWARD THAT GOAL BY TEACHING FARMING METHODS AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUES TO INDIANS AND OTHERS IN HIS PARISH.
    IN 1810, PADRE HIDALGO, ALONG WITH MILITARY LEADER IGNACIO DE ALLENDE CONSPIRED TO OVERTHROW THE ROYALIST GOVERNMENT. WARNED THAT OFFICIALS SUSPECTED THEIR PLOT, HIDALGO GATHERED SYMPATHIZERS IN DOLORES. FOLLOWING EARLY MASS ON THE MORNING OF SEPT. 16, 1810, HIDALGO MADE HIS FAMOUS 'GRITO DE DOLORES' A CALL TO ARMS WHICH IN EFFECT BEGAN THE REVOLT THAT LED TO MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE IN 1821. DURING THE BATTLE ON A BRIDGE IN CALDERON, PADRE HIDALGO WAS CAPTURED AND LATER WAS UNFROCKED AND SHOT. CONSIDERED THE 'FATHER OF MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE,' PADRE HIDALGO CONTINUES TO BE HONORED FOR HIS LEADERSHIP THROUGHOUT MEXICO AND THE SOUTHWEST. unsigned
    Description: 
    A bust of Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. He has a balding head and wears a coat with lapels over a priest's collar. The bust is mounted on a rectangular base.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Hidalgo, Miguel -- Bust
    Ethnic -- Mexican
    Occupation -- Religion -- Clergy
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- Edinburg
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Edinburg, Edinburg Chamber of Commerce, 521 South 12th, Edinburg, Texas 78539
    Located Courthouse Square, Southwest corner, Edinburg, Texas
    Remarks: 
    Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753-1811), is considered the father of Mexican independence. The subject marker on the base was added in 1983.
    IAS files contain articles from The Edinburg Daily Review, March 14, 1976; The Monitor (McAllen, TX), Sept. 18, 1983; and material written by archivist David Mycue. For additional information see Hubert J. Miller's "Padre Miguel Hidalgo; Father of Mexican Independence," Edinburg, TX: Pan American University Press, 1986. Related unpublished materials are also on file at the Texas Historical Commission, the Hidalgo County Historical Commission, and at the Hidalgo County Historical Museum.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Texas survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    The Monitor (McAllen, TX), Sept. 18, 1983.
    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 TX000739
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