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    		• Gallo, Frank,
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Champaign
     
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    Boneyard Creek Sculpture, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Gallo, Frank, 1933- , sculptor.
    Title: 
    Boneyard Creek Sculpture, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated Oct. 17, 1976.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    7 figures. (Figure A: approx. 76 x 22 x 4 in.) (Figure B: approx. 66 3/4 x 17 x 4 in.) (Figure C: approx. 49 x 31 x 4 in.) (Figure D: approx. 73 x 39 x 4 in.) (Figure E: approx. 66 x 28 x 4 in.) (Figure F: approx. 37 x 28 1/2 x 4 in.) (Figure G: approx. 70 x 25 x 4 in.).
    Inscription: 
    10/76 Gallo signed
    Description: 
    Seven silhouette figures placed around a creek, in various poses: sitting, standing, and one pair arm in arm as they look onto the creek. Two figures are on the north side of the bank and the others are on the south bank. The figures represent the people of Champaign County who helped save an abused historic prairie stream.
    Subject: 
    Figure group
    Allegory -- Civic
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Champaign
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Champaign Park District, 706 Kenwood Road, Champaign, Illinois 61821
    Located Scott Park, Intersection of Third Street & Healy, Champaign, Illinois
    Remarks: 
    IAS files contain map of site with locations of figures around the creek noted. Inscription on nearby marker reads: BONEYARD CREEK SCULPTURE BY FRANK GALLO DEDICATED SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1976 IN COMMEMORATION OF THE PEOPLE OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY WHO HAVE BANDED TOGETHER TO REVITALIZE AN ABUSED HISTORIC PRAIRIE STREAM. THE RESTORATION OF THE 3.9 MI STREAM TO A HYDROLICALLY BEAUTIFUL URBAN PARKWAY THROUGH THE CENTER OF CHAMPAIGN-URBANA AND THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS WAS THE MAJOR HORIZON '76 PROJECT OF THE CHAMPAIGN COUNTY BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION.
    A GRANT FROM THE ILLINOIS BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION MADE THIS SCULPTURE POSSIBLE. CHAMPAIGN COUNTY BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION JEANNE ROCHFORD, CHAIRMAN/MAXINE BOHN, SECRETARY/HOBART PEES, TREASURER/DR. NATALIE BELTERG/MARGUERITE PEASE/TEDDY DAWSON/NEVA ANDERSON/LUCY GRAY/WILLIAM J. HELMS, PROJECT DIRECTOR/SUSIE KIEHUE AND MARGARET SODEMAN/BIRTHDAY PRESENTS TO THE U. S. CHAIRMAN/THE CHAMPAIGN-URBANA NEWS GAZETTE/INSTIGATOR OF BIRTHDAY PRESENTS/TO THE U. S. NEWSPAPER COMPANY/
    LAND DONORS/WILLIAM AND ARTHUR SKELTON/IN MEMORY OF THEIR PARENTS/MAURICE AND LULU SKELTON
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Illinois survey, 1992.
    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 IL000018
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