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Milwaukee, (sculpture). Artist:  Greenamyer, George, 1939- , sculptor. Careswell Sculpture & Iron Works, fabricator. Title:  Milwaukee, (sculpture). Dates:  1988. Dedicated May 2, 1989. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: painted steel: Base: concrete. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 18 x 5 x 20 ft. Inscription:  (On east leg of support:) Milwaukee/Aug. 4, 1988 (On west leg of support:) George M. Greenamyer/Sculptor (Bronze plaque on concrete base:) MILWAUKEE/(copyright symbol)1987 by George Greenamyer/Commissioned under the/Wisconsin Arts Board/Percent For Art Program signed Description:  A cross-section of the city is depicted, looking from the lake to the interior. Includes images of Milwaukee harbor lighthouse and lighthouse keeper; seaman on a Great Lakes freighter; workman on a grain elevator; businessman and woman outside First Wisconsin Center; painter at City Hall; bank, German-Polish house, farmhouse, farm couple, cow, and mailman. The figures are hot-forged or blacksmithed and painted with gloss enamels. The I-beam on which they are placed is supported by three steel arches. Subject:  Cityscape -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Cityscape -- Water Architecture -- Domestic -- Farmhouse Architecture -- Boat -- Freighter Architecture -- Civic -- Town Hall Architecture -- Industry -- Grain Elevator Architecture -- Domestic -- House Architecture -- Lighthouse Occupation -- Industry -- Shipping Occupation -- Other -- Businessman Occupation -- Farm Occupation -- Service -- Postman Animal -- Cattle Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Sculpture Owner:  Administered by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Campus Facilities Planning, Englemann Hall, 280; P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 Located University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Golda Meir Library, in front, northwest corner, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 Remarks:  Commissioned for $21,400 under the State Percent for Art program, which allocated .2% (two tenths of one percent) of state buildings costs for artworks. IAS files contain related newsclippings from Milwaukee Journal, May 19, 1989. References:  Wisconsin Arts Board, Percent for Art Program, 2003. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Wisconsin, Milwaukee survey, 1993. Palmer, Virginia A., 1989. Illustration:  Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 74020073   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 74020073 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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