Sculpture: powdered clay mixed with concrete over chicken wire and metal rod, painted, and steel; Base: concrete
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by Wilkes County Wilkes County Commissioners 406 Mark Lane North Wilkesboro North Carolina 28659
Located 100 block of North Bridge Street Wilkesboro North Carolina 28697
Date:
June 1975. Dedicated Nov. 23, 1975
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, North Carolina survey, 1994.
Image on file.
The Journal-Patriot (Wilkesboro, NC), Aug. 4, 1994.
unsigned
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Summary:
Standing portrait of Col. Ben Cleveland in his Revolutionary War uniform holding a steel sword in his raised proper left hand and a horn in his proper right hand. He is dressed in a three-cornered hat, a knee-length coat, breeches, white stockings, and laced, ankle-length, cuffed boots. The figure is painted gray. The sculpture rests on a square base atop a low foundation.
