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Henry F. Schricker Bust, is a public artwork by American artist David Rubins , located in the Indiana State House, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. It is a bronze bust of former Indiana governor Henry F. Schricker. The bust and its base are 49 inches high, 29 inches wide, and 22 inches long. The bust itself is 16 33.5 inches high on a 15.5 inch high base. It was installed in the southeast alcove of the Indiana State House in 1964.

Description
The bust is of bronze with a wax patina. It was cast with the lost-wax method. It depicts Governor Schricker staring ahead and wearing a shirt, tie, vest, and jacket with large rock behind him. At the bottom of the bust on the proper left side is a maker's mark that reads "Rubins 64." The bust is hollow and appears to be cast of a single piece.

The bust sits upon a roughly cubical limestone base fronted with a bronze plaque that identifies Henry F. Schricker as the thirty-fourth and thirty-eighth governor of Indiana and supplies the dates of his governorships. The entire work is held in place by a pair of threaded rods that run up into the base and down into the bottom of the alcove.

The bust weighs 1,200 pounds.

Historical information
The bust was dedicated on November 11, 1964 in a ceremony that drew over 350 people. Former governor Schricker attended with his wife and his their six grandchildren unveiled the bust before the reading of a message from then-president Lyndon B. Johnson. . The bust displaced a bust of Abraham Lincoln, which was moved to an alcove on the west side of the State House. It was honored so because Shricker was thought by Hoosiers to be an "ideal governor." The bust cost $3,500 dollars and was paid for by the governor's contingency fund.

Sculptor Rubins placed the bust of Governor Schricker on a rock in order "to establish the deep strength of the man." .

Artist
The bust was cast by sculptor David Kresz Rubins. He also cast the statue of a young Abraham Lincoln that adorns the Indiana State House lawn.