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[[Image:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |
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{{otheruses4|an American company|the village by this name|Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin}} |
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[[Image:Jean-Baptiste_Carpeaux_La_Danse.jpg|thumb|right|400px|La Danse (The Dance), Opera Garnier in Paris]] |
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{{Infobox Company |
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| company_name = Weyerhaeuser Company |
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| company_logo = [[Image:weyco.jpg]] |
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| company_type = [[Public company|Public]] ({{nyse|WY}}, {{tsx|WYL}}) | |
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| foundation = 1900 |
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| location = [[Federal Way, Washington]] |
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| key_people = Steven R. Rogel ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]], Chairman)<br />Richard E. Hanson ([[Chief operating officer|COO]]) |
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| industry = [[pulp and paper industry|pulp and paper]] |
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| products = |
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| revenue = {{profit}} $22.629 billion [[United States dollar|USD]] (2005)<ref>{{cite web | title = Weyerhaeuser Company | publisher = Google Finance | url = http://finance.google.com/finance?q=WY| accessdate = 2006-12-1}}</ref> |
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| operating_income = {{profit}} $1.359 billion [[United States dollar|USD]] (2005) |
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| net_income = {{profit}} $0.733 billion [[United States dollar|USD]] (2005) |
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| num_employees = 49,900 (2006) |
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| homepage = [http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/ www.weyerhaeuser.com] |
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}} |
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'''Weyerhaeuser''' is one of the largest [[pulp and paper industry|pulp and paper]] companies in the world; the world's largest [[private sector|private]] owner of [[softwood]] [[timber]]land; and the second largest owner in the United States, behind [[International Paper]]. Weyerhaeuser has approximately 41,000 employees in 18 countries, including [[United States]], [[Canada]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[China]], [[Mexico]], [[Ireland]], [[France]], and [[Uruguay]]. |
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'''Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux''' ([[May 11]], [[1827]], [[Valenciennes]] –[[October 12]], [[1875]], [[Courbevoie]]) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under [[François Rude]]. Carpeaux won the [[Prix de Rome]] in [[1854]], and moving to [[Rome]] to find inspiration, he there studied the works of [[Michelangelo Buonarroti|Michelangelo]], [[Donatello]] and [[Andrea del Verrocchio|Verrocchio]]. Staying in Rome from [[1854]] to [[1861]], he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of [[baroque art]]. In [[1861]] he made a bust of [[Mathilde Bonaparte|Princess Mathilde]], and this later brought him several commissions from [[Napoleon III]]. He worked at the pavilion of [[Flora (goddess)|Flora]], and the [[Opéra Garnier]]. His group La Danse (the Dance, [[1869]]), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency. |
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==History== |
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In January 1900, [[Friedrich Weyerhäuser]] founded the company as ''Weyerhaeuser Timber Company'' with 15 partners and 900,000 acres (3,600 km²) of [[Washington]] [[timber]]land.<ref>{{cite web | title = Weyerhaeuser in Brief | publisher = Weyerhaeuser | url = http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/aboutus/facts/WeyerhaeuserInBrief.pdf | format = [[PDF]] | accessdate = 2006-11-24}}</ref> In 1929, the company built what was then the world's largest sawmill in [[Longview, Washington]]. Weyerhaeuser's pulp mill in Longview, which began production in 1931, sustained the company financially during the [[Great Depression]]. In 1959, the company eliminated the word "Timber" from its name to better reflect its operations. In 1965, Weyerhaeuser built its first bleached [[kraft pulp]] mill in Canada. Weyerhaeuser implemented its High Yield Forestry Plan in 1967 which drew upon 30 years of forestry research and field experience. It called for the planting of seedlings within one year of a harvest, [[soil fertilization]], thinning, rehabilitation of brushlands, and, eventually, genetic improvement of trees. |
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He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of [[Asia]], [[Europe]], [[North America|America]] and [[Africa]], and it was [[Emmanuel Frémiet]] who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin. |
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Weyerhaeuser consolidated its core businesses in the late 1990s and ended its services in [[mortgage banking]], personal care products, financial services, and information systems consulting. Weyerhaeuser also expanded into [[South America]], [[Australia]], and [[Asia]]. In 1999, Weyerhaeuser purchased [[MacMillan Bloedel Limited]], a large Canadian forestry company. Then in 2002 after a protracted hostile buyout, the company acquired [[Willamette Industries, Inc.]] of [[Portland, Oregon]].<ref>[http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-18-2002/0001689036&EDATE= Weyerhaeuser Welcomes Oregon Willamette Employees as Companies Combine to grow Global Leader]</ref> On August 23, 2006, Weyerhaeuser announced a merge with [[Domtar|Domtar's]] fine paper business in a $3.3 billion cash and stock deal. |
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== Sculptures by Carpeaux == |
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==Operations== |
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<TABLE BORDER="1" ALIGN="right" CELLPADDING="5" CELLSPACING="0"> |
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<TR><TH COLSPAN="6" style="background:#efefef;">Financial Information |
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* Ugolin et ses fils - [[Ugolino della Gherardesca|Ugolino]] and his Sons (1861, in the permanent collection of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]])[[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000009025.html]] with versions in other museums including the [[Musée d'Orsay]] |
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<TR><TH> <TH>2005<TH>2004<TH>2003<TH>2002<TH>2001</TR> |
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* The Dance (commissioned for the [[Palais Garnier|Opera Garnier]]) |
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<TR><TD>Net Sales<BR>(US$M)<TD>22,629<TD>21,931<TD>19,873<TD>18,521<TD>14,545 |
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* Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - [[Naples|Neapolitan]] Fisherboy - in the [[Louvre]], [[Paris]] [[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000034255.html]] |
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<TR><TD>Net Earnings (Loss)<BR>(US$M)<TD>733<TD>1283<TD>277<TD>241<TD>354 |
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* Girl with Shell |
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* [[Antoine Watteau]] monument, [[Valenciennes]] |
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Weyerhaeuser imports timber products from [[Malaysia]], [[Chile]], and [[Brazil]], and has timber operations or offices in 44 [[American states]], Canada, and 18 other countries. Weyerhaeuser is one of [[North America]]'s largest distributors of [[wood]] products; it owns more than seven million acres (28,000 km²) of land in the U.S., and holds [[logging]] rights to more than 35 million acres (142,000 km²) of land in Canada. Weyerhaeuser has expanded beyond its roots in [[lumber]] and [[wood]] products; it controls more than 100 subsidiaries in fields such as construction, [[real estate]] sales, and development. |
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==Neapolitan Fisherboy== |
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The company's operations are divided into five major business segments: |
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* Timberlands — Growing and harvesting [[tree]]s in renewable cycles. |
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* Wood Products — Manufacturing and distribution of building materials for homes and other structures. |
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* [[Pulp and Paper]] — Produces a variety of [[paper]]s and the pulp used to produce papers, absorbent products, [[photographic film]], and several others. |
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* Containerboard Packaging and [[Recycling]] — Produces paper, boxes, and bags to move products from [[factories]] to the household. The segment collects and recycles wastepaper, boxes, and newsprint to make new products. |
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* Real Estate — Builds homes and develops land. Weyerhaeuser has six [[subsidiaries]] collectively called WRECO, the largest of which is [[Pardee Homes]]. |
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Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of ''Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille'', the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the [[French Academy]] while a student in [[Rome]]. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for [[Napoleon III]]'s empress, [[Eugénie de Montijo|Eugènie]]. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington D.C.]] |
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The company also operates an [[Information technology|IT]] [[internship]] program to develop professionals for employment in its IT department. |
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Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study. |
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==Corporate governance== |
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The Weyerhaeuser [[board of directors]] consists of: [[Richard Haskayne]], [[Robert Herbold]], [[Martha Rivers Ingram]], [[John W. Kieckhefer]], [[Arnold Langbo]], [[Don Mazankowski]], [[Nicole Piasecki]], [[Steven Rogel]], [[Richard Sinkfield]], [[D. Michael Steuert]], [[James Sullivan (businessman)|James Sullivan]], and [[Charles Williamson]]. |
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Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition. The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to [[Naples]]. |
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==Criticism== |
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Activists have protested company policies ranging from [[clear-cut logging]] to conversion of native forests to [[tree plantation]]s devoid of [[biodiversity]] and mill closures among others. |
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===Employee Firearms Policy=== |
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On [[October 1]], [[2002]], the company sent [[detection dog]]s into the parking lot of their [[Valliant, Oklahoma]] plant looking for drugs in cars in response to an employee drug overdose. They found no drugs, but the dogs alerted on 12 cars with guns in them. The company then ordered the employees to open their cars for a hand search, and [[rifle]]s, [[shotgun]]s, and [[handgun]]s were found. The 12 employees were immediately suspended. |
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Two days later, the company fired all 12 employees, including a shift supervisor of 23 years with an exemplary record. Jimmy 'Red' Wyatt and all the others said that they were never told of the policy change, extending the company gun ban to the parking lot, which had occurred in 2002. |
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The plant manager, Mr. Nebel said that firing the men was difficult but he felt safer with all the guns out of the parking lot. Mr. Nebel stated that all the employees had been warned of the policy change. |
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Several of the fired men have filed a civil suit against Weyerhaeuser for wrongful termination, with [[Tulsa]] attorney [[Larry Johnson]] representing them. Mr.Johnson, a longtime [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Second Amendment]] lawyer, said that this was an injustice that must be addressed.<ref>{{cite web | first = Ralph | last = Blumenthal | title = Gun Organization Takes On an Energy Giant | publisher = [[The New York Times]] |date= [[August 3]], [[2005]] | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/national/03guns.html?ex=1280721600&en=9f1de0d54e10aeda&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss | accessdate = 2006-11-24}}</ref> |
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[http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=113443] |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/ Weyerhaeuser Company Web Site] |
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*[http://www.ilevel.com/ iLevel by Weyerhaeuser : Structural Frame Business Web Site] |
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*[http://www.cbc.ca/thunderbay/features/brain-poisoning/index.html?dataPath=/photogallery/regions/thunderbay/gallery_339/xml/gallery_339.xml Dryden Pulp & Paper Workers suffer from damage] |
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*[http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=rs_display_res&critere=jean+baptiste+carpeaux&operator=AND&nbToDisplay=5&langue=fr A page on the official Louvre site giving access to some of Carpeaux's works (French language only)] |
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*[http://www.insecula.com/contact/A005511_oeuvre_1.html A page from insecula.com listing more views of Carpeaux's works (also in French;] it may be necessary to close an advertising window to view this page) |
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*[http://www.studiolo.org/MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm A page analysing Carpeaux's ''Ugolino'', with numerous illustrations] |
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827, Valenciennes –October 12, 1875, Courbevoie) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio. Staying in Rome from 1854 to 1861, he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of baroque art. In 1861 he made a bust of Princess Mathilde, and this later brought him several commissions from Napoleon III. He worked at the pavilion of Flora, and the Opéra Garnier. His group La Danse (the Dance, 1869), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency.
He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of Asia, Europe, America and Africa, and it was Emmanuel Frémiet who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin.
Sculptures by Carpeaux
- Ugolin et ses fils - Ugolino and his Sons (1861, in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)[[1]] with versions in other museums including the Musée d'Orsay
- The Dance (commissioned for the Opera Garnier)
- Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - Neapolitan Fisherboy - in the Louvre, Paris [[2]]
- Girl with Shell
- Antoine Watteau monument, Valenciennes
Neapolitan Fisherboy
Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille, the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the French Academy while a student in Rome. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for Napoleon III's empress, Eugènie. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.
Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition. The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to Naples.
External links
- A page on the official Louvre site giving access to some of Carpeaux's works (French language only)
- A page from insecula.com listing more views of Carpeaux's works (also in French; it may be necessary to close an advertising window to view this page)
- A page analysing Carpeaux's Ugolino, with numerous illustrations