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Conrad Mizer Memorial Fountain, (sculpture). Artist:  Matzen, Herman N., 1861-1938, sculptor. Streibinger, Frederic, sculptor. Title:  Conrad Mizer Memorial Fountain, (sculpture). Dates:  1910. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: appears to be limestone with bronze medallion; Base: concrete. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 13 x 66 x 53 in.; Medallion: approx. Diam. 16 in.; Base: approx. 5 x 88 x 87 in. Inscription:  (On bronze medallion, lower right:) H.N. Matzen 1910 (On front of stele, below medallion:) (missing letters CO)NRA(missing letter D) MIZ(missing letters ER) / F(missing letter O)U(missing letters ND)ER OF (missing letter P)UBLIC PARK CONCERTS / 1(missing numbers 856) 1904 signed Description:  Rectangular stone stele topped with a small pediment. On each side, below the pediment, is a row of garlands. On the front, in the center of the stele is a bronze medallion containing a relief of Conrad Mizer's head. The medallion is surrounded by a rectangular stone border of leaves and berries. Below the medallion is a fountain spigot and below the spigot is a semicircular fountain basin in a rectangular block. Subject:  Portrait male -- Mizer, Conrad -- Head Occupation -- Monetary -- Philanthropist Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Cleveland Fountain Sculpture Owner:  Administered by State of Ohio, Department of Natural Resources, 8701 Lake Shore Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44108 Located Cleveland Lakefront State Park, West Boulevard & Edgewater Drive, south of pavilion, Cleveland, Ohio Provenance:  Formerly located Edgewater Park, Cleveland, Ohio Formerly in the collection of City of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio until 1978. Remarks:  In 1896, music enthusiast Conrad Mizer initiated and funded a program for giving band concerts on Sunday afternoons in different Cleveland area parks. The Cleveland Lakefront State Park was formerly know as Edgewater Park. In 1978, the sculpture and the park were acquired by the State of Ohio, Department of Natural Resources. IAS files contain related excerpt from Elroy McKendree Avery's "A History of Cleveland and Its Environs, the Heart of New Connecticut," Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918, pg. 562-563. References:  Lybarger, Helen Baldwin, "A Survey of Public Monuments in Cleveland," Cleveland, OH: Early Settlers Assoc. of Cleveland & the Western Reserve, 1979. (booklet) Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cleveland survey, 1993. 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 88420017   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 88420017 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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