Ready, (sculpture)

Object Details

Notes: Save Outdoor Sculpture, Wisconsin survey, 1993.; Inventory staff, 2005.; Image on file.; (On bronze base:) CAST BY AMERICAN ART BRONZE FOUNDRY/J. PAULDING SC. CHICAGO (Lower front of granite base, incised:) IN HONOR OF THE/MEN AND WOMEN OF RACINE WHO SERVED/THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WAR/1917--1918 (Lower back of granite base, incised:) THIS MEMORIAL AND BURIAL PLOT/GIVEN BY WILLIAM HORLICK; 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 uniformed World War I soldier stands at parade rest holding the barrel of his rifle with his proper left hand, the butt of which rests on the ground. The soldier's proper right hand rests on his waist. He wears a wide-brimmed hat, a jacket with an open collar, sleeves rolled up above the elbows, and leggings. He has a musette bag hanging from his ammunition belt and a sword or perhaps a bayonet which protrudes from under the bag. The soldier stands on a tall, multitiered, inscribed, shaft-like base with an emblem or seal close to the top. The lower section of the base has two flanking smaller sections with a flower urn on each, and is mounted upon a wider tier. There are three concentric rings of burial plots of soldiers who served in World War I surrounding the monument.