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Amateis, Edmond,
Eggers Group Architects,
Figure group -- Female & Child
Occupation -- Medicine
State of Being -- Death
Outdoor Sculpture -- District of Columbia -- Washington
Relief
Sculpture
American
Red
Cross
Nurses, (sculpture).
Artist:
Amateis, Edmond, 1897-1981, sculptor.
Eggers Group Architects, architectural firm.
Title:
American
Red
Cross
Nurses, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Red
Cross
Building Symbolic Figures, (sculpture).
I am with the Wounded, (sculpture).
Dates:
1952. Dedicated Oct. 1, 1953.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: limestone.
Dimensions:
2 reliefs. Each relief: approx. 7 1/2 ft. x 5 ft.
Inscription:
(On wall between figures, below window:) I AM WITH THE WOUNDED
Description:
Flanking the window over the entrance to the building are two reliefs of kneeling female figures representing nurses. The nurse on the left holds a transfusion bottle in her proper right hand. The nurse on the right, holds a bowl in her proper left hand and feeds a starving child which she holds on her lap. The bottom hem of each nurses uniform drapes over the surrounding architectural components above the window. The nurses wear long scarves which cover their hair.
Subject:
Figure group -- Female & Child
Occupation -- Medicine -- Nurse
State of Being -- Death -- Starvation
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture --
District
of
Columbia
--
Washington
Relief
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by United States General Services Administration,
Washington
,
District
of
Columbia
Located
American
Red
Cross
,
Facilities
, 430 17th Street, N.W.,
Washington
,
District
of
Columbia
20006
Remarks:
The Fine Arts Commission accepted the design for the relief in July 1951; the building was dedicated Oct. 1, 1953. The inscription between the two figures was taken from a telegram written by Clara Barton, founder of the
American
Red
Cross
. Clara Barton took the line from a poem by a writer named Harvey. The rest of the poem reads "I am with the starving, I am with the happy." The nurses symbolize the disaster relief work of the
Red
Cross
.
References:
Index of
American
Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
United States General Services Administration, 1988.
Goode, James M., "The Outdoor Sculpture of
Washington
, D.C., A Comprehensive Historical Guide,"
Washington
, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974, pg. 473.
Save Outdoor Sculpture,
District
of
Columbia
survey, 1994.
Michael Richman, SAAM curatorial assistant, 1967-1969.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Goode, James M., "The Outdoor Sculpture of
Washington
, D.C., A Comprehensive Historical Guide,"
Washington
, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974, M-28.
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 76004845
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