Explore the Fate of this artwork, The Rescue (sculpture).
In 1976, a crane accidentally dropped The Rescue while moving it to a new Smithsonian storage area in Maryland, thus reducing it to several fragments.  Today they lie next to Discovery, also said to be in poor condition.In a collaboration between the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the pioneer's dog from The Rescue was exhibited during a temporary show, "Horatio Greenough: An American Sculptor's Drawings" in late 1999.
Smithsonian Maryland Middlebury College Museum of Art Architect of the Capitol Horatio Greenough Middlebury College Office of the Architect of the Capitol