Pioneer Women in Sculpture

A discussion of where, when and why pioneer women are presented in American sculpture during the first half of the 20th Century (all photographs by the author)

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Las Vegas, New Mexico Pioneer Woman

So far I have intended this blog to be my version of responsible, well referenced, (pseudo-) academic research oriented, "just-the-fac...

Friday, March 25, 2011

Pioneer Woman at Texas Women's University

I release the contents of this article under the CC-By-SA and GFDL licenses, initially to be used in wikipedia, but also anywhere else. I a...

Friday, March 4, 2011

the Sullivan gates, Denver Colorado, USA

It has been a long time since I posted here, but it's time, as the pioneers used to say, to get back in the saddle. Many, perhaps a majo...

Monday, June 1, 2009

Midland Savings Building frieze

Computers. And technology in general. It's a love hate thing with me some days, particularly now that my computer is comatose, my back-...

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Ponca Ciity Pioneer Woman Statue

I release the contents of this article under the CC-By-SA and GFDL licenses, initially to be used in wikipedia, but also anywhere else. Alth...

Monday, February 25, 2008

Western Settlers & Pioneer Women

(Text and photos by Cindy Prescott) I stumbled into studying Pioneer statues as I was finishing a dissertation that compared the gender and...

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Chapter 4 - The Devil Wore Prada - Pioneer Women Wore Boots

When building a house it is essential that there be a solid, firm foundation if the house its self is going to survive long. The same is pr...

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About Me

Einar (and Cindy, now and then): It was probably about 20 years ago when I ran into my first Madonna of the Trail statue. I believe that it was in, or near, Springfield, Ohio. Learning that it was just one of eleven castings of the same work peaked my interest and before I knew it I was hooked on Pioneer Women statues. Later I was to find other, less obvious representations of Pioneer Women in a variety of architectural settings, mostly in friezes. Then when I started looking at them as a genre it dawned on my that many, perhaps most of them were produced in a fairly narrow time frame, from about 1927 to perhaps a decade later. This in turn raised more questions than it answered, and the hunt was on. A hunt that was soon to take me to Ponca City, Oklahoma, USA. There I discovered not only the world's largest bronze Pioner Woman (or so it seemed to me) but the wonderful Pioneer Women Museum right next to it. The next stop after that, not too far away by Western standards (three states away if one was in New England) was the Woolaroc Museum that held all the . . . ... but look, I am getting ahead of my self. All will be revealed as the blog grows. eeeeek

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