Handcart Pioneers, (sculpture)

Object Details

sculptor

Knaphus, Torlief 1882-1965

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Utah survey, 1993.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.

Image on file.

(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

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Summary

Twelve figures (male and female) pulling loaded handcart. Small boy at back pushes cart.

1926

Control number

IAS 75008250

Type

Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture

Sculptures

Medium

Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone

Owner/Location

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

Title

Handcart Pioneeer Monument, (sculpture)

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Topic

Figure group

Religion--Mormonism

History--United States--Westward Expansion

Architecture--Vehicle--Cart

Dress--Historic--Pioneer Dress

Record ID

siris_ari_14591

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