The Rhode Island Red, (sculpture)

Object Details

Notes: Save Outdoor Sculpture, Rhode Island survey, 1993.; Image on file.; (At lower right:) HENRY L. NORTON/WINTHROP, MASS. (On relief, beside and below figure:) THE/RHODE/ISLAND/RED/TO COMMEMORATE THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE/RHODE ISLAND RED BREED OF FOWL WHICH/ORIGINATED NEAR THIS LOCATION/RED FOWLS BRED EXTENSIVELY BY/THE FARMERS OF THIS DISTRICT AND LATER/NAMED "RHODE ISLAND REDS" AND BROUGHT INTO/NATIONAL PROMINENCE BY THE POULTRY FANCIERS./THIS TABLET PLACED BY THE/RHODE ISLAND RED CLUB OF AMERICA/WITH CONTRIBUTIONS OF RHODE ISLAND RED/BREEDERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD/ON LAND DONATED BY/DEBORAH T. MANCHESTER/1925 signed; 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: Bronze relief of a Rhode Island Red rooster with text mounted onto a boulder.

Type: Sculptures-Relief; Sculptures-Boulder; Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture; Sculptures

Owner/Location: Administered by Town of Little Compton Town Council 40 Commons Little Compton Rhode Island; Located Adamsville at Main & Westport Harbor Road Little Compton Rhode Island