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Wyoming Pioneer Family
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Wyoming Pioneer Family

Artist
Year1967
Classification sculpture
Medium Bronze
Dimensions9-1/2' x 15' x 9"
Credits Commissioned through the Fine Arts in New Federal Buildings Program
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Location

  • The sculpture was cast in 1967 by Tomassi Foundry in Pietrasanta, Italy, and was for a time feared lost at sea during a hurricane in the Caribbean that fall. Finally, the ship arrived in New Orleans; the sculpture was shipped to Cheyenne overland; and, it arrived in 1968, at which time it was installed by the artist.  




    Young boy holds on wrist an eaglet which he is training, symbolic of the eyeing of the future by the youth; young eaglet is the symbol of the energies of the United States.  The artist's idea came from local news stories of young boys who capture eaglets and train them to fly and to return to the boys' wrists. Father and Mother are working people; Father stands paternally around his family; Mother's expression is not the most optimistic--there is concern in her face as she holds the baby.  Young girl is in a little world of her own to the left of the composition. It is a world of Nature and her own version of birds and other living things.