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(Wooden Painted Cowboys in Conversation), (sculpture). Artist:  Bailey, Kent, sculptor. Title:  (Wooden Painted Cowboys in Conversation), (sculpture). Digital Reference:  Medium:  First cowboy: wood, painted, and sound; Second cowboy: wood, painted. Dimensions:  2 figures. First cowboy: approx. 6 ft. 6 in. x 23 in. x 21 in.; Second cowboy: approx. 5 ft. 6 in. x 24 in. x 30 in. Inscription:  unsigned Description:  A pair of cowboys stand on either side of road, as if conversing. The first is slightly hunched with his hands in his back pockets, with bow legs. His hair is white with long sideburns and bushy eyebrows, his face beige, craggy, and weatherbeaten, his eyes blue. He is wearing a light blue shirt with white snaps, his pants a darker blue with a stripe down the side. He wears brown boots and there is a hole in his pant leg at his proper left knee, and a patch on the other knee. At one time, he was wired to "talk," but now his mouth is an empty hole. The second cowboy is hunched with his hands in his pockets. His face is weatherbeaten and his skin is beige, eyes black, and his hair is brown with sideburns and bushy eyebrows. His shirt is medium blue with brown snaps, and he has light blue pants with patches on the proper left knee, and a brown belt and boots. There is a hole in his pant leg at the proper right knee. The cowboys are set directly on the ground. Subject:  Figure group -- Male Occupation -- Other -- Cowboy Recreation -- Leisure -- Conversation Dress -- Accessory -- Hat Western Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Colorado -- Monument Sculpture Owner:  Colorado Heights Camping Resort, 19575 Monument Hill Road, Monument, Near entrance, Colorado 80132 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of National Carvers Museum, 18725 Monument Hill Road, Monument, Colorado until 1990. Remarks:  The cowboys were previously owned by the National Carvers Museum, which closed in April of 1990, and were sold at auction the following September to help repay the museum's debts. The buyer, Ernie Biggs, is the owner of Colorado Heights Camping Resort, and purchased the figures, as well as another cowboy and sportsman figure, paying from $350 to $775 each. IAS files contain a related article from the Gazette-Telegraph (Colorado Springs, Co), Sept. 24, 1990, which discusses the museum's closure, the auction, and the purchase. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Colorado, Colorado Springs 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 CO000418   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CO000418 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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