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    		• Blai, Boris,
     
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    		• Roman Bronze Works,
     
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    		• Figure female -- Nude
     
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    		• Figure female -- Knee length
     
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    		• Dress -- Accessory
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Middletown
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    The Evening Garment, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Blai, Boris, 1893-1985, sculptor.
    Roman Bronze Works, founder.
    Title: 
    The Evening Garment, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Cast ca. 1940s.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: cast bronze; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 46 x 26 x 38 in.; Base: approx. H. 22 in. x Diam. 36 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On seat, beneath woman's proper left hip, incised lettering:) Boris Blai signed
    Description: 
    A nude figure of a seated female with her proper right hand resting on a piece of cloth draped over her proper right thigh. She is twisted at the waist with her proper left shoulder leaning back. She holds a sting of pearls in her proper left hand which rests on her proper right hip. The sculpture is set on a circular, pedestal-like base.
    Subject: 
    Figure female -- Nude
    Figure female -- Knee length
    Dress -- Accessory -- Jewelry
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Middletown
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, Office of the Provost, 777 West Harrisburg, Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057
    Located Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, Bertha & Boris Blai Sculpture Garden, behind Olmstead Building, Middletown, Pennsylvania
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Blai, Boris & Bertha, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was formerly in the artist's garden at his home in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania. A nearby plaque reads: The/Bertha and Boris Bali/Sculpture Garden/named on this day, September 12, 1994/to recognize the gifts from their daughters,/Dr. Ruth Leventhal and Dr. Anita Simon. For additional information see the Boris Blai papers at Temple University Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.
    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 PA001045
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