Covered Wagon (sculpture)
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''Covered Wagon'', also known as ''Oregon Trail Immigrants Memorial'' and ''Pioneer Family'', is an outdoor 1934 white marble sculpture by
Leo Friedlander Leo Friedlander (July 6, 1888 – October 24, 1966) was an American sculpture, sculptor, who created several prominent works. Early life and education At 12 years old, Friedlander studied at the Art Students League of New York, Art Students Lea ...
installed outside the
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in
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, United States.


Description and history

Leo Friedlander Leo Friedlander (July 6, 1888 – October 24, 1966) was an American sculpture, sculptor, who created several prominent works. Early life and education At 12 years old, Friedlander studied at the Art Students League of New York, Art Students Lea ...
's ''Covered Wagon'' (1934) is a high
relief Relief is a sculpture, sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term ''wikt:relief, relief'' is from the Latin verb , to raise (). To create a sculpture in relief is to give ...
carving depicting a pioneer family in front of a
covered wagon A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, or prairie schooner, is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon used for passengers or freight hauling. It has a canvas, tarpaulin, or waterproof sheet which is stretched over removable wooden ...
, located outside the
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's main entrance. The figure group includes a father, mother and young boy, plus a horse. The father faces westward with his proper right hand shielding his eyes from the sun, while the mother is shown kneeling and facing forward. The white
marble sculpture Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface b ...
, carved from a block made of six smaller pieces, measures approximately x x and rests on a granite base that measures approximately x x . On the back is a map illustrating the area covered by the
Oregon Trail The Oregon Trail was a east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and Westward Expansion Trails, emigrant trail in North America that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail crossed what ...
and depictions of pioneer life. The installation also includes a signed inscription that reads: . The sculpture was surveyed and considered "treatment needed" by the Smithsonian's "
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" program in August 1993, and was administered by the Facilities Division of the
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at that time.


See also

* 1934 in art *
Stone carving Stone carving is an activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Owing to the permanence of the material, stone work has survived which was created during our prehistory or past time. Work carried ...
*
Stone sculpture In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. It is categorized by the minerals included, its chemical composition, and the way in which it is formed. Rocks form the Earth's ...
* ''The Promised Land'' (sculpture), Portland, Oregon


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''Covered Wagon'' (Pioneer Family) relief at the Oregon State Capitol building in Salem, Oregon
DC Memorials
Capitol Tour Web Exhibit
Oregon Blue Book The ''Oregon Blue Book'' is the official directory and fact book for the U.S. state of Oregon prepared by the Oregon Secretary of State and published by the Office of the Secretary's Archives Division. The ''Blue Book'' comes in both print and o ...

''Covered Wagon'', Salem, Oregon, from the series The American Monument
(1972),
Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM; formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds one of the world's lar ...

Covered Wagon, (sculpture)
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