James Stephen Hogg - Austin, TX - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

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"James Stephen "Big Jim" Hogg (March 24, 1851 – March 3, 1906) was a Texas lawyer, doctor and statesman, and the 20th Governor of Texas. He was born near Rusk, Texas. Hogg was a follower of the conservative New South Creed which became popular following the U.S. Civil War, and was also associated with populism. He was the first Texas Governor to have been born in Texas. Jim Hogg County is named after him."

The 8-foot bronze portrait statue of Governor James ("Jim") Hogg shows him standing, dressed in knee-length coat and holding a western style hat in his proper right hand. He stands atop a two-tiered base.

The statue is one of six portait statues lining the South Mall of the University of Texas at Austin, originally completed to surround Coppini's Littlefield Fountain. The other portraits are of those of Woodrow Wilson, John H. Reagan, Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston and Jefferson Davis. The fountain and portrait statues were funded with a $250,000 donation by Major General George W. Littlefield, an Austin philanthropist and former Chairman of the University of Texas Board of Regents. When changes were made to the initial design of the memorial fountain, the portrait statues were incorporated into Paul Cret's landscape program for the campus and placed lining the South Mall instead of around the fountain as originally intended.

The inscriptions on the bronze statue and the granite base are as follows:

(on proper right side of statue's self base):
P. Coppini Sc.

(on back of statue's self base):
CAST BY ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y.

(on front of granite base):
JAMES STEPHEN HOGG
1851 1906
ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF TEXAS
THE FIRST NATIVE GOVERNOR
OF TEXAS
THE PEOPLE'S GOVERNOR
OF TEXAS

For more information on Jim Hogg, see: (visit link)

TITLE: James Stephen Hogg, (sculpture) ARTIST(S): Pompeo Coppini, sculptor; Waldine Amanda Tauch, assistant; Paul Philippe Cret, landscape architect; Roman Bronze Works, founder; Morison & Walker, architectural firm. DATE: no date listed MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 77006160 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Between the Main Building and the Littlefield Fountain in the South Mall area of the University of Texas campus. Access from the 100 block of W. 21st Street, Austin, TX. DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: none noted

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