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Commerce Street 1810
(Mercantile Continental Building)

Cowboy mosaic

Millard Sheets
1959

Description

Mosaic high-relief sculpture - 9.1 m high - including a cowboy, native Americans, horses and wild animals made of carved stone and brightly colored Italian glass mosaic tiles and 22-karat gold ornamentation. Commissioned for the building by legendary Dallas banker R.L. Thornton, who had a thing for cowboys. He was fond of wearing Western hats and was one of the city's most notable business gunslingers.

Signature

Millard Sheets

Sculptor

Millard Sheets (1907-1989), American painter (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Mercantile Continental Building

Locatie (N 32°46'49" - W 96°47'44") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ustx16; Photograph: 7 October 2010
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