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    		• Konolyi, Manya,
     
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    		• Jefferson, Peter,
     
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    		• Alexis Rudier Fondeur,
     
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    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
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    		• Allegory -- Quality
     
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    		• State of Being -- Other
     
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    		• Object -- Fruit
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Florida -- Stuart
     
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    Lady Abundance, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Konolyi, Manya, 1883-1968, sculptor.
    Jefferson, Peter, architect.
    Alexis Rudier Fondeur, founder.
    Title: 
    Lady Abundance, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Goddess of the Grapes, (sculpture).
    Abundance, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1925. Installed ca. 1949. Relocated Oct. 18, 1961. Relocated April 26, 1991.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze, with green patina; Basin: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 10 x 2.5 x 2.5 ft.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    Fountain sculpture with a pregnant woman wearing a sleeveless, calf-length dress, belted with a grapevine. Her raised proper right hand holds a wine jug on top of her shoulder and her proper left hand holds a downward turned wine jug against her side. Grapes are around her neck, and by the downward jug. Her head looks down, and she rests on her proper left foot, her proper right knee bent and her heel lifted from the ground. The sculpture is mounted on an octagonal base in a fountain basin surrounded by a concrete walkway within a traffic circle.
    Subject: 
    Figure female -- Full length
    Allegory -- Quality -- Wealth
    State of Being -- Other -- Pregnant
    Object -- Fruit -- Grape
    Object -- Other -- Container
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Florida -- Stuart
    Fountain
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Stuart, Parks Department, 920 East 10th Street, Stuart, Florida 34994
    Located Haney Circle, Osceola Street, Stuart, Florida
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Memorial Park, East Ocean Boulevard, Stuart, Florida 1961-1991.
    Formerly located Martin County Courthouse, North area, Stuart, Florida
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was sculpted in Venice and cast in France around 1925, and was a major display piece in the Salon de Paris for several years. In 1930, the artist brought it to the United States for display in her one-woman show at the New York Fine Arts Gallery. It was chosen for exhibition at the French pavilion at the New York World's Fair of 1939, but the outbreak of World War II canceled French participation and it was not displayed. Sculpture was purchased by someone in New York and remained in storage there until 1949 when The Woman's Club of Stuart (Florida), headed by Aura Fike Jones (Mrs. Franklin Delano Jones), purchased it for $2,000 (its storage fees), raised through donation. Martin County paid $500 for shipping and installation. It was originally intended to be installed in Haney Circle, named after Cynthia Burnet Haney, a prohibitionist known for her strict moral character, but the open nature of the sculpture brought controversy. Instead, it was placed north of the old Martin County Courthouse. It was relocated to Memorial Park in 1961 when the Courthouse was expanded. In 1991, as part of renovations to downtown Stuart, the sculpture was relocated to Haney Circle. Architect Peter Jefferson designed the new walkway and seating around the basin, along with the landscaping and the lights. While sited in Stuart, the sculpture was once painted gold.
    A site of the sculpture in Stuart once had the following plaque: ABUNDANCE/sculptured in Venice, Italy/by Manya Kanoeli(sic)/purchased and made a gift/to the city of Stuart/By/The Woman's Club of Stuart/placed in park/October 18, 1961/Relocated to Haney Circle/April 26, 1991.
    IAS files contain: newspaper article from The Palm Beach Post, July 5, 1992; two unidentified newspaper articles, marked "SN Oct. 6, 1985," and "SN 1-30-91;" an excerpt from Aura Fike Jones' "New Life for Grandmother," Philadelphia: Continental Press, 1958, pg. 59-61.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Florida survey, 1995.
    Illustration: 
    The Palm Beach Post, July 5, 1992.
    Palm Beach Design and Architectural Review (June 2009): cover.
    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 FL000781
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