Seen around town, sculptures made of bronze (and a few other metals):
John F. Kennedy in General Worth Square beside the Hotel Texas.
The Golden Goddess, covered with 250 sheets of gold leaf, was the centerpiece of the Westbrook Hotel lobby during the Ranger oil boom. She is now at the Petroleum Club.
Sculptor Archie St. Clair’s Major Ripley Allen Arnold, erected in 2014.
Mark Twain in Trinity Park.
Charles Tandy at TCU.
Co-founders Addison and Randolph Clark at TCU.
Bill Pickett on Exchange Avenue.
Spring Palace fire hero Al Hayne on Lancaster Avenue.
Will Rogers and Soapsuds on Lancaster Avenue.
High Desert Princess by Mehl Larson at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame.
Sacagawea at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame.
Soldiers at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Bas-relief of state Representative Garfield Thompson in the Texas & Pacific passenger station.
Detail of the zinc tombstone of Jesse Shelton Zane-Cetti (1844-1922).
Bas-relief of the 1849 fort at the corner of Belknap and Houston streets.
Solomon on a door of the Masonic Temple.
Sentinel inside an entrance of the Farmers & Mechanics National Bank building on Main Street, now a hotel.
Longhorn on a water meter cover.
This bust, presented to Amon Carter by Star-Telegram employees in 1948, for years was in the lobby of the West 7th Street building. I assume it is now in the new location of the newspaper in The Fair building. (Photo from UTA Libraries Digital Gallery Star-Telegram Collection.)
Does Soapsuds face directly away from College Station as does his counterpart in Lubbock?
Ha! I had forgotten about that bit of campus lore. The FW statue still faces west, into the sunset. To the east is the law school of Texas A&M.
My husband and I think the Tandy statue looks so much like Ray Milland that we nicknamed it “Ray Millandy.”
Oh, great. Now every time I watch “The Big Clock” or “Dial M for Murder” or even “The Thing with Two Heads” I am going to see Charles Tandy. This is going to get confusing. Tandy, on the other hand, will be pleased.