RIP
Posted on 06/18/2006 12:05:37 AM PDT by woofie
The familiar cowboy astride the blue bucking bronco has returned to the G Street entrance of the old U.S.Patent Office Building. "Vaquero" was hoisted back into place on Thursday in anticipation of the July 1 reopening of the Smithsonian's American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery within the neoclassical structure, which has been under renovation since January 2000.
The public sculpture is one of a dozen works in the museum's collection by artist Luis Jimenez, who died on Tuesday as the result of injuries suffered during an accident in his Hondo, N.M., studio. Mr. Jimenez, 65, was working on a huge sculpture of a mustang for the Denver International Airport when the suspended piece came loose and fell on him.
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RIP
ART Ping!!!!
ouch.
Read your page--I hope its getting easier to vote Republican.
That Jimenez died with his boots on . . . . Still it is sad to see someone so productive and sane go.
Sometimes Art imitates Life, sometimes Art Eliminates Life...
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