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Sculptor and His Heroic Statue, 1940Entry/Object ID
AM1972.14.1KKKScope and Content
Sculptor and His Heroic Statue, 1940. This picture has Hermon A. MacNeil leaning on the base of the great statue he designed, It is the Pony Express horse and rider, The picture was taken at the foundry, where the bronze memorial was cast. The scarf over the rider's horse served to keep the dust from his nostrils in his gallop across the plains and the mail was attached to a mochila, a leather square thrown from one horse to another in the relay race with time. The bronze weight is taken care of by a support that suggests the mountains to be crossed, the sage brush and alkali desert. On one side is the sun and on the other the moon symbolizing the ride that continued day and night. The photograph shows, by contrast with its author, the great size of the 7,200-pound statue. Speed is the motif. The horse looks excited as the rider starts on the run for the first lap of the St. Joseph to Sacramento journey.Lexicon
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