Citadel, (sculpture) | Smithsonian Institution

Object Details

Save Outdoor Sculpture, South Dakota survey, 1994.; Image on file.; Dale Claude Lamphere/SCULPTOR John Steinbeck/THE GRAPES OF WRATH (Plaque on back:) CITADEL/Dedicated to the pioneer women of South/Dakota by the family of Darlene Duling/She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome/her position, the citadel of the family, the/strong place that could not be taken...she/had dignity and a clean, calm beauty...as/a healer, her hands had grown sure and/cool and quiet,...as arbiter, she had/become as remote and faultless in judgement/as a goddess. signed; 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.
Summary: A full-length pioneer woman sheathed in a corn stalk. The woman's head and arms are exposed, with the rest of her body blended into a standing stalk of corn. The woman is standing in front of a two panel granite wall, with reeds to her proper left.

1991. Copyrighted 1991. Dedicated June 22, 1991

Owner/Location: South Dakota Bureau of Administration 500 East Capitol Pierre South Dakota 57501; Located South Dakota State Capitol North entrance Pierre South Dakota

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Topic: Allegory--Life--Womanhood; Occupation--Other--Pioneer; Figure female--Full length; Homage--Duling, Darlene; Object--Vegetable--Corn; Literature--Steinbeck--Grapes of Wrath