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Billig, Marcia,
Children
Animal -- Cat
Animal -- Bird
Object -- Written Matter
Recreation -- Leisure
Occupation -- Education
Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Gaithersburg
Sculpture
The Reading Bench, (sculpture).
Artist:
Billig
,
Marcia
, sculptor.
Title:
The Reading Bench, (sculpture).
Dates:
1989. Copyrighted 1989.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 6 x 4 x 2 ft.; Base: approx. 2 x 4 x 2 ft.
Inscription:
(copyright symbol) 1989
Marcia
Billig
(Founder's mark) signed Founder's mark appears.
Description:
Four students reading books are balances on top of each other in a pyramid. At the bottom of the pyramid is a boy, lying on his stomach, reading a book with his feet in the air and a terrapin on his back. He balances a smaller boy with glasses on his raised legs. The second boy has a bird perched on his uplifted proper right foot and holds an open book in his proper right hand. His head rests on the head of a standing girl with shoulder-length hair that holds a folio-sized journal in her hands. She wears a cap and knee-length skirt. Balanced on the girl's head and the second boy's proper left foot is another girl, lying on her back with an open book balanced on her stomach. She has her hair in a pony-tail, wears pants and ankle-high boots. A cat is balanced on her raised feet.
Subject:
Children
Animal -- Cat
Animal -- Bird
Object -- Written Matter -- Book
Recreation -- Leisure -- Reading
Occupation -- Education -- Student
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Gaithersburg
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Montgomery County Public Schools, Division of Construction, 850 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850
Located Strawberry Knoll Elementary School, 18820 Strawberry Knoll Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Remarks:
The sculpture cost $20,000. IAS files contain an excerpt of an April 12, 1988 memorandum from the Office of the Superintendent of Schools, Montgomery County Public Schools.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maryland 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 MD000440
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Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
MD000440
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