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Great-great-great grandson of William Clark, Peyton C. "Bud" Clark Jr. and his family commissioned artist Harry Weber to sculpt a pair of historically accurate busts of Lewis and Clark as they would have appeared during the expedition. In the course of restoring Clark's monument, the Clarks provided Weber with a bust of William Clark which had been removed from the monument at his gravesite for reconditioning. This Partridge rendition of a somewhat younger Clark was used in combination with the now famous portrait done from life by Charles Peale to create the most accurate possible likeness of him as he would have appeared during the period of the expedition. Lewis is shown in his Army Captain's uniform with close cut hair as he would have appeared during the outbound portion of the journey and at council with the Native Americans. Clark is dressed in his plains Indian "war shirt" worn over a tattered linen shirt as he would have looked near the journey's end. This pair of busts works to literally span the expedition. |
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Artist Harry Weber is a sculptor with an International reputation. He has over forty outdoor and more than a hundred smaller sculptures on display in the United States and abroad. His sculptures have appeared on the covers of national magazines and are in the collections of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, the Museum of Fine Art in Newport,, Rhode Island, and the National Dog Museum. In St. Louis, Missouri, he is best known for his sculptures of announcer Jack Buck and the Baseball Hall of Fame players outside of Bush Stadium. Among Weber's larger works is a sixty foot diorama of the Lewis and Clark Expedition titled "Late May 1805." The sculpture consists of 3 life size human figures, (Lewis, Clark, and Sacagewea), as well as a Newfoundland dog and four wild animals. These bronzes can be seen in the historic fur exchange building, which is now the Drury Plaza, in downtown St..Louis, Missouri. |
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