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Biddy Mason's Home of the Open Hand, (sculpture). Artist:  Saar, Betye, 1926- , sculptor. Title:  Biddy Mason's Home of the Open Hand, (sculpture). Dates:  1989. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Glass, painted wood, an enlarged photograph and found objects including a framed photograph, a bottle, flowers, fabric and a fan. Inscription:  unsigned Description:  Wall installation in lobby of parking garage designed to recreate the front porch of the home of Biddy Mason. Includes a photo wall panel of the actual front porch and the adjacent wall contains the sculpted version. A fence, house siding and a window adorn this wall. Behind the window glass are fabric, a bottle holding flowers, a fan and a framed photograph of Biddy Mason. Subject:  Architecture -- Detail -- Porch Architecture -- Detail -- Window Portrait female -- Mason, Biddy -- Bust Occupation -- Medicine -- Nurse Figure group Ethnic -- African American Object -- Art Object -- Photograph Object Type:  Mural Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Los Angeles Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Los Angeles, Community Redevelopment Agency, Art Program, 354 South Spring Street, 7th floor, Los Angeles, California 90013 Located Biddy Mason Park, Broadway Spring Center Garage, 331 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, California Remarks:  Funded with a National Endowment for the Arts, Art in Public Places grant of $5,580 given in 1986 to The Power of Place organization. Funds were also provided by the Community Redevelopment Agency and private donations. Developed through the One Percent for the Arts program. This site, a parking garage, was formerly the home of Biddy Mason (1818-1891), a freed enslaved individual and early African American homeowner in Los Angeles. She was a nurse, midwife, founder of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church and philanthropist. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995. Heritage Preservation SOS! survey of NEA Art in Public Places funded sculpture, 2002. Illustration:  Image on file. Related Works:  Companion to: CA000447 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 CA000448   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CA000448 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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