Kinkaid School 201 Kinkaid Playground Houston Texas 77024
Date:
1987
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Texas survey, 1993.
Image on file.
FOLEY 87 (On plaque on front of base:) IN LOVING MEMORY OF/OSCAR HOLCOMBE CROSSWELL II/BY HIS PARENTS DAVID AND CAROLYN CROSSWELL/AND THEIR CHILDREN. signed
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Summary:
Full-length figure of a small boy playing with a dog. The boy holds a partially-eaten cookie in his proper left hand. In his proper right hand he holds a whole cookie, which he offers to the dog. He wears a shirt, shorts with suspenders, knee socks and laced shoes. The dog is in front of the boy and faces him. The dog stands on his hind legs; his front legs are raised and his mouth is open. The dog is small and shaggy-haired. The metal sculpture has a metal self-base which stands on top of a rectangular concrete aggregate base.
