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    		• Koepnick, Robert C.,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Chapman, John
     
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    		• Object -- Written Matter
     
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    		• Occupation -- Religion
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Johnny Appleseed, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Koepnick, Robert C., 1907-1995, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Johnny Appleseed, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    John Chapman, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated May 1968.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite boulder.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 10 x 2 x 3 ft.; Base: approx. 24 x 24 x 52 in.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    A slender, elongated figure of a man walking with his proper left foot forward. He holds a torch above his head in his proper right hand and looks up towards it. A bag is slung over his proper right shoulder. He holds a book in his proper left hand at his side.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Chapman, John -- Full length
    Object -- Written Matter -- Book
    Occupation -- Religion -- Missionary
    Literature -- Character -- Johnny Appleseed
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Section 134, Cincinnati, Ohio 45232
    Remarks: 
    IAS files contain a copy of the Cincinnati Enquirer (May 10, 1968. The statue commemorates John Chapman, a missionary who planted apple orchards in the Ohio Valley frontier. Inscription on a nearby plaque reads: JOHNNY APPLESEED/(JOHN CHAPMAN, SEPTEMBER 26, 1774 - MARCH 18, 1845)/JOHNNY APPLESEED, FIGURE OF LEGEND, WAS A SWEDENBORGIAN/MISSIONARY TO THE OHIO AND INDIANA FRONTIER. SAINTLY/IN HIS DAILY LIFE, HE LOVED LIFE IN ALL ITS FORMS AND/HAD A JOYOUS WILL TO HELP THE EARTH YIELD ITS FRUITS./BIBLE IN HAND AND SACK OF SEEDS SWINGING FROM HIS SHOULDER,/HE PLANTED MANY APPLE ORCHARDS THAT LIVE TODAY IN THE/REGION. MAY HE BE REMEMBERED IN FACT AS WELL AS IN/LEGEND FOR HIS GODLINESS AND GOODNESS.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cincinnati survey, 1993.
    Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH), May 10, 1968.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Cincinnati Enquirer Magazine (Cincinnati, OH), Nov. 8, 1970.
    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 OH000034
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