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SOM#075, Herring Coe, Beyond the Sky and Beneath the Sea are Known but to God and Fantasy, 1967
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From the collection of John Birks
Numbers Issued: 845 bronze
FROM THE ARTIST
BEYOND THE SKY AND BENEATH THE SEA ARE KNOWN BUT TO GOD AND FANTASY
We attribute to the unknown aspects of the familiar, and it is not that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe. Our eyes receive color patterns from afar, and the mind translates these into concepts that must fit into a limited capacity for perception.
Today some see "flying saucers" as sailors once told of strange creatures in waters dark and deep. Mermaids and sea serpents were combinations and variations of nature's creatures formed in minds seeing by the light of their day. In our time, machines of man follow his imagination into outer space, and mysterious glows in the sky are excitedly attributed to similar craft from other worlds. In the Age of Faith, such misty lights would have been seen as halos around an angel's head.
My marine equestrian could have been done long ago, but my flying saucer was designed with thoughts of energy fields and speculations about matter and anti-matter. Laser beams of light suggest the idea of directing radiant lines of force into parallel paths to maneuver a fantastic space ship far in advance of anything projected by man.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Herring Coe is a native Texan and a combat veteran of World War II. He attended public schools and college in Louisiana and Texas and majored in electrical engineering before becoming interested in sculpture. He later studied under Carle Miles at Cranbrook Art Academy in Michigan.
His endeavor has been limited mostly to commissioned work for permanent installation, and a variety of forms, materials and projects have been his field of activity. Among these projects are two monuments won in a National and a State competition, respectively; the bronze Dick Dowling at Sabine Pass, Texas, and the granite frieze on the cenotaph erected in memory of the children and teachers who perished in the school explosion at New London, Texas. Another public monument is a colossal bronze statue of "The Texan", in Vicksburg National Military Park. Private memorials, busts and reliefs, garden statuary, and architectural sculpture round out his works.
In Houston, some of the buildings with architectural sculpture by Coe are the City Hall, Rice University Library, St. Mary's Seminary Chapel, St. Placidus Home for the Aged, First Presbyterian Church, Reptile Building and Entrance Pylons at Hermann Park Zoo. Elsewhere there are college and public school buildings, churches, banks, office buildings, libraries, courthouses, clubs and residence with Coe's work on or in them.
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![SOM#075, Herring Coe, Beyond the Sky and Beneath the Sea are Known but to God and Fantasy, 1967
[b]From the collection of John Birks[/b]
[i]Numbers Issued: 845 bronze[/i]
[b]FROM THE ARTIST[/b]
[i]BEYOND THE SKY AND BENEATH THE SEA ARE KNOWN BUT TO GOD AND FANTASY[/i]
We attribute to the unknown aspects of the familiar, and it is not that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe. Our eyes receive color patterns from afar, and the mind translates these into concepts that must fit into a limited capacity for perception.
Today some see "flying saucers" as sailors once told of strange creatures in waters dark and deep. Mermaids and sea serpents were combinations and variations of nature's creatures formed in minds seeing by the light of their day. In our time, machines of man follow his imagination into outer space, and mysterious glows in the sky are excitedly attributed to similar craft from other worlds. In the Age of Faith, such misty lights would have been seen as halos around an angel's head.
My marine equestrian could have been done long ago, but my flying saucer was designed with thoughts of energy fields and speculations about matter and anti-matter. Laser beams of light suggest the idea of directing radiant lines of force into parallel paths to maneuver a fantastic space ship far in advance of anything projected by man.
[b]ABOUT THE ARTIST[/b]
Herring Coe is a native Texan and a combat veteran of World War II. He attended public schools and college in Louisiana and Texas and majored in electrical engineering before becoming interested in sculpture. He later studied under Carle Miles at Cranbrook Art Academy in Michigan.
His endeavor has been limited mostly to commissioned work for permanent installation, and a variety of forms, materials and projects have been his field of activity. Among these projects are two monuments won in a National and a State competition, respectively; the bronze Dick Dowling at Sabine Pass, Texas, and the granite frieze on the cenotaph erected in memory of the children and teachers who perished in the school explosion at New London, Texas. Another public monument is a colossal bronze statue of "The Texan", in Vicksburg National Military Park. Private memorials, busts and reliefs, garden statuary, and architectural sculpture round out his works.
In Houston, some of the buildings with architectural sculpture by Coe are the City Hall, Rice University Library, St. Mary's Seminary Chapel, St. Placidus Home for the Aged, First Presbyterian Church, Reptile Building and Entrance Pylons at Hermann Park Zoo. Elsewhere there are college and public school buildings, churches, banks, office buildings, libraries, courthouses, clubs and residence with Coe's work on or in them.
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[b]From the collection of John Birks[/b]
[i]Numbers Issued: 845 bronze[/i]
[b]FROM THE ARTIST[/b]
[i]BEYOND THE SKY AND BENEATH THE SEA ARE KNOWN BUT TO GOD AND FANTASY[/i]
We attribute to the unknown aspects of the familiar, and it is not that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe. Our eyes receive color patterns from afar, and the mind translates these into concepts that must fit into a limited capacity for perception.
Today some see \"flying saucers\" as sailors once told of strange creatures in waters dark and deep. Mermaids and sea serpents were combinations and variations of nature's creatures formed in minds seeing by the light of their day. In our time, machines of man follow his imagination into outer space, and mysterious glows in the sky are excitedly attributed to similar craft from other worlds. In the Age of Faith, such misty lights would have been seen as halos around an angel's head.
My marine equestrian could have been done long ago, but my flying saucer was designed with thoughts of energy fields and speculations about matter and anti-matter. Laser beams of light suggest the idea of directing radiant lines of force into parallel paths to maneuver a fantastic space ship far in advance of anything projected by man.
[b]ABOUT THE ARTIST[/b]
Herring Coe is a native Texan and a combat veteran of World War II. He attended public schools and college in Louisiana and Texas and majored in electrical engineering before becoming interested in sculpture. He later studied under Carle Miles at Cranbrook Art Academy in Michigan.
His endeavor has been limited mostly to commissioned work for permanent installation, and a variety of forms, materials and projects have been his field of activity. Among these projects are two monuments won in a National and a State competition, respectively; the bronze Dick Dowling at Sabine Pass, Texas, and the granite frieze on the cenotaph erected in memory of the children and teachers who perished in the school explosion at New London, Texas. Another public monument is a colossal bronze statue of \"The Texan\", in Vicksburg National Military Park. Private memorials, busts and reliefs, garden statuary, and architectural sculpture round out his works.
In Houston, some of the buildings with architectural sculpture by Coe are the City Hall, Rice University Library, St. Mary's Seminary Chapel, St. Placidus Home for the Aged, First Presbyterian Church, Reptile Building and Entrance Pylons at Hermann Park Zoo. Elsewhere there are college and public school buildings, churches, banks, office buildings, libraries, courthouses, clubs and residence with Coe's work on or in them.
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