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  • Fry, Sherry Edmundson,
     
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  • Figure male -- Child
     
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  • Object -- Other
     
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  • Fountain
     
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  • Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Los Angeles
     
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    Boy with Sea Shell, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Fry, Sherry Edmundson, 1879-1966, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Boy with Sea Shell, (sculpture).
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    Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: bronze.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 32 in. x W. 14 in.; Base: approx. H. 20 x Diam. 11 in.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    Nude boy with a cape around his shoulders holding up a sea shell in his proper right hand.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Child -- Nude
    Object -- Other -- Shell
    Object Type: 
    Fountain
    Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Los Angeles
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    University of California at Los Angeles, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018
    Remarks: 
    IAS files contain a copy of the accessions record for this piece from a 1936 library inventory. The record lists the cost of this sculpture as $5,000. Commissioned probably sometime in the 1920s, not after 1934.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1994.
    William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, inventory, 1936.
    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 CA000257
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