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Logging Team
after 1970
William Queor
Born: 1910
Died: 1980
carved and painted wood with mixed media
overall: 8 1/4 x 23 x 5 3/4 in. (21.0 x 58.3 x 14.6 cm.) irregular
part B: 1 5/16 x 5 3/8 x 1/4 in. (3.4 x 13.8 x 0.5 cm.)
part C: 1 1/16 x 3 3/4 x 1/4 in. (2.7 x 9.5 x 0.5 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
1986.65.262A-C
Smithsonian American Art Museum
3rd Floor, Luce Foundation Center
William Queor created this piece to memorialize the logging industry around the turn of the century. In the early days of logging there were few roads and railroads to transport the logs. Workers did most of the cutting in the winter, because the icy conditions made it easier to move the wood. Queor’s sculpture shows two horses pulling a sled full of logs bound for the river where, in the spring, the wood will be floated downstream to the mill.
For more information about this work visit the Luce Foundation Center.
Keywords
Animal - horse
Architecture - vehicle - cart
Figure male - full length
Occupation - industry - lumber
sculpture
folk art
mixed media
wood
About William Queor
Born: 1910 Died: 1980
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