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Knaphus, Torlief,
Figure group
Religion -- Mormonism
History -- United States
Architecture -- Vehicle
Dress -- Historic
Outdoor Sculpture -- Utah -- Salt Lake City
Sculpture
Handcart Pioneers, (sculpture).
Artist:
Knaphus, Torlief, 1882-1965, sculptor.
Title:
Handcart Pioneers, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Handcart Pioneeer Monument, (sculpture).
Dates:
1926.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 6 x 4 x 10 ft.; Base: approx. 1 x 5 x 12 ft.
Inscription:
(Plaque on base:) Handcart Pioneer Monument/The Handcart Pioneer Monument is a/tribute to the thousands of hardy Mormon/pioneers who, because they could not/afford the larger ox-drawn wagons, walked/across the rugged plains in the 1850s/pulling and pushing all their posses/sions in handmade all-wood handcarts./Some 250 died on the journey, but nearly/3,000, mostly British converts, completed the 1,350-mile trek from Iowa City, Iowa, to/the Salt Lake Valley. Many Latter-Day Saints/today proudly recount the trials and the triumphs of their ancestors who were among the Mormon handcart pioneers. unsigned
Description:
Twelve figures (male and female) pulling loaded handcart. Small boy at back pushes cart.
Subject:
Figure group
Religion -- Mormonism
History -- United States -- Westward Expansion
Architecture -- Vehicle -- Cart
Dress -- Historic -- Pioneer Dress
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Utah -- Salt Lake City
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, Museum of Church History & Art, 45 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
Located Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Utah survey, 1993.
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
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 75008250
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Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
75008250
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