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The sculptor-in-residence line: no master, no successor, no stone — none here

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The line the checklist asks for — a resident master sculptor, his student-successor, and the monuments each raised — does not exist on this ground, and the negative is dug, not assumed. Three searches carry it. (1) The monument record: the banked wars leg searched the Historical Marker Database, Waymarking, the town's own sources and the county parks' pages for any veterans memorial or marker in Osceola and found none — its sentence stands: Post 308 has "no stone." A sculptor's monuments would have to stand somewhere, and the databases that catalogue standing work return nothing here. (3) The person record: no sculptor — resident, visiting or commissioned — is named for this ground in Chapman, Howard, the 1875 atlas, the IRS register read whole for the town (seventy-three organizations, no sculptor's studio or arts body of the visual kind), or any source reached in this build; the one artist name the record produces at all is Jay Mason, a painter, and unproven (item 7 below). A succession cannot be printed where the first hand is missing: no master, therefore no student-successor, therefore no monuments — the three links of the checklist's chain fail at the first link, on searches, and the item closes TESTED NEGATIVE. The settler that could reopen it is the same class as the wars leg's: an in-person grounds check (town hall, Post 308 at 122 Lincolnway East, the cemeteries) and Kiracofe (1988); a found stone with a maker's name would be entered at once.

Sources:

  1. This build's Wars & Military Service, article war-posts — the HMdb, Waymarking, town and county-parks memorial searches, negative, with the in-person check named as settler; Post 308, 122 Lincolnway East.
  2. IRS exempt-organizations register, "Osceola, IN," read whole (73 organizations) — no sculptor, studio or visual-arts body.
  3. Chapman, Howard and the 1875 atlas, as read in this build — no sculptor named for this ground.

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Source: The sculptor-in-residence line: no master, no successor, no stone — none here, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/arts/sculptor-in-residence-line-no-master-no-successor-no/