Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     Return to results > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Kurtz, Benjamin T.,     Animal -- Deer     Mythology -- Classical     Animal -- Amphibian     Object -- Foliage     Allegory -- Place     Allegory -- Place     Outdoor Sculpture -- Maine -- Camden     Sculpture

Two Little Fauns, (sculpture). Artist:  Kurtz, Benjamin T., 1899-1960, sculptor. Title:  Two Little Fauns, (sculpture). Dates:  Commissioned 1930. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze with patina; Base: bronze. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. H. 39 in. x W. 18 in.; Base: approx. H. 6 in. x W. 27 in. Inscription:  (Top of pedestal:) Kurtz signed Description:  A nude boy stands with both arms stretched behind him holding a fawn. He holds the fawn under the neck with his proper left hand while his proper right arm presses against the top of the fawn's body. The boy's proper left leg is forward and his head is lowered to the proper left side looking at the fawn. He is wearing a wreath of grape leaves around his head. The frog is perched between the boy's proper left foot and the fawn's tangled legs. Subject:  Animal -- Deer Mythology -- Classical -- Bacchus Animal -- Amphibian -- Frog Object -- Foliage Allegory -- Place -- Forests Allegory -- Place -- Lakes Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Maine -- Camden Sculpture Owner:  Camden Public Library, Main Street, Behind the library, Camden, Maine 04843 Remarks:  According to Camden library documents, the boy is a symbol for Bacchus, a Greek mythical character, and the grape leaves around his head are symbols of harvest and festival. The fawn signifies the forests, and the frog, lakes and streams. The sculpture was commissioned by Mary Curtis Bok Zimbalist in 1930 and landscaped by the Camden Garden Club in 1988. IAS files contain transcription on adjacent plaque and a brief article on the sculpture from the Camden Public Library. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maine survey, 1994. 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 ME000002   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture ME000002 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact