Bronze Homage to Bill Mauldin
My wife and I found this sculpture at the Shidoni sculpture foundry near Santa Fe during our 2009 vacation there. It is a representation of an editorial cartoon Bill Mauldin published in the military publication "Stars and Stripes" during World War II. You can see Mauldin's name near the bottom of the sculpture.
Mauldin was a New Mexico native, and Charles Schulz often referred to him in the Peanuts comic strip, when Snoopy would 'go to Bill Mauldin's house to quaff a few root beers', generally on Memorial Day or some other national holiday. Schulz was a WWII veteran and had a lot of respect for Mauldin.
In this particular cartoon, an old cavalry sergeant doesn't know what to do with this mechanical contraption, so he does the same thing he would do to a horse that had broken its leg, namely, put it out of its presumed misery.
Bronze Homage to Bill Mauldin
My wife and I found this sculpture at the Shidoni sculpture foundry near Santa Fe during our 2009 vacation there. It is a representation of an editorial cartoon Bill Mauldin published in the military publication "Stars and Stripes" during World War II. You can see Mauldin's name near the bottom of the sculpture.
Mauldin was a New Mexico native, and Charles Schulz often referred to him in the Peanuts comic strip, when Snoopy would 'go to Bill Mauldin's house to quaff a few root beers', generally on Memorial Day or some other national holiday. Schulz was a WWII veteran and had a lot of respect for Mauldin.
In this particular cartoon, an old cavalry sergeant doesn't know what to do with this mechanical contraption, so he does the same thing he would do to a horse that had broken its leg, namely, put it out of its presumed misery.