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The Performing Arts, (sculpture). Artist:  Jonson, Jon Magnus, 1893-1947, sculptor. Title:  The Performing Arts, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Drama, Music, Elocution, (sculpture). Dates:  1938-1940. Dedicated May 3-4, 1940. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: limestone. Dimensions:  6 figures. Each sculpture: approx. 8 ft. x 30 in. x 20 in. Inscription:  unsigned Description:  Six heroic allegorical female figures adorn two sides of a building; three on each side. Each limestone figure stands in a high brick niche. The figures wear long robes and head coverings. One figure holds a mask in her proper right hand at hip level. One figure is strumming a lyre, which she holds against her proper right chest. The third figure holds a scroll in her proper left hand. The figures on one side of the building are duplicated on the other side. Subject:  Figure female -- Full length Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Drama Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Music Object -- Written Matter -- Scroll Object -- Musical Instrument -- Lyre Dress -- Costume -- Mask Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Indiana -- West Lafayette Architectural component Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Purdue University, Purdue University Galleries, Creative Arts Building 1, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Located Purdue University, Elliot Hall of Music, West Lafayette, Indiana Remarks:  The building was constructed June 1938 - May 1940. The sculptures were fabricated under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Indiana survey, 1993. 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 IN001036   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture IN001036 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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