Administered by Thoreau Senior Center 371 State Highway Thoreau New Mexico 87323
On loan to McKinley County Courthouse 2nd & Hill Street Gallup New Mexico
Date:
1993. Dedicated July 1993
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Mexico survey, 1994.
Image on file.
(On bronze plaque, lower front of rug:) "SALTILLO RUG"/by/CAROLYN MILLIGAN/BILL MITCHELL/JACQUES C. TIXIER/JULY 1993/THE ARTISTS' WORK WAS PURCHASED THROUGH AND/FUNDED BY THE ART IN PUBLIC PLACES PROGRAM OF/THE NEW MEXICO ARTS DIVISION, THE GALLUP AREA/ARTS COUNCIL AND McKINLEY COUNTY./McKINLEY COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS/HARRY H. MENDOZA, CHAIRPERSON/EARNEST C. BECENTI, SR./KEITH L. ELKINS/TEODOLO F. ARELLANO, MANGER. unsigned
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Summary:
Sculpture is a steel loom and saltillo rug. The half-inch steel plate rug, suspended from the loom, is anchored to the ground by two vertical 6 inch pipes that frame the work. The saltillo pattern is created by a series of cut outs in the flat surface of the rug.
