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    		• Schon, Nancy Quint,
     
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    		• New England Sculpture Service,
     
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    		• Literature -- Aesop
     
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    		• Literature -- Character
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    The Tortoise and the Hare, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Schon, Nancy Quint, 1928- , sculptor.
    New England Sculpture Service, founder.
    Title: 
    The Tortoise and the Hare, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Copyrighted 1994.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Sculpture: silicone bronze.
    Dimensions: 
    2 pieces. Tortoise: approx. 21 x 30 x 60 in.; Hare: approx. 22 x 33 x 50 n.
    Inscription: 
    New England Sculpture Service (On tail of tortoise and on foot of hare:) Schon (copyright symbol) 1994 signed
    Description: 
    Two bronze, larger than life size depictions of the tortoise and the hare characters from Aesop's Fables. The hare is depicted stopping to scratch his ear while the tortoise makes his way to the finish line. The sculptures are installed near the finish line for the Boston Marathon.
    Subject: 
    Literature -- Aesop -- Tortoise and Hare
    Literature -- Character -- Hare
    Literature -- Character -- Tortoise
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Boston, Boston Art Commission, Office of Cultural Affairs, Boston City Hall, Room 716, Boston, Massachusetts 02201
    Located Copley Square, Boylston Street & Dartmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts
    Remarks: 
    The inscription on a nearby plaque reads: Tortoise and Hare/at Copley Square (copyright symbol)/was created by Nancy Schon as a permanent tribute/to the runners from all over the world/who have participated in the Boston Marathon/Friends of Copley Square/May 1995.
    IAS files contain an article from Copley Square News (Spring 1994); and a copy of the proposal submitted by the Friends of Copley Square to the Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust Fund requesting $50,000 (Houghton Mifflin Company was noted as funding $20,000 of the cost and the Friends of Copley Square was to provide the remaining $15,000). The sculpture is designed to touched and played on by children.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997.
    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 MA000225
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