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    		• Barnhill, James,
     
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    		• Allegory -- Life
     
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    		• Figure female -- Child
     
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    		• Portrait female -- Bartsch,
     
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    		• Animal -- Horse
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- North Carolina -- Asheville
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    		• Light fixture
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Childhood, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Barnhill, James, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Childhood, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1995. Dedicated Sept. 14, 1995.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 43.5 x 26 x 17 in.; Base: approx. W. 24 in. x D. 24 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On plaque near base:) PLACED BY/BETTY AND PERRY/BARTSCH/AND/FAMILY (In concrete base:) BARNHILL signed
    Description: 
    Sculpture depicts a young female figure drinking from a lamppost fountain. She is barefoot, wears a short-sleeved dress and her hair is in two braids. She holds up one of the braids in her proper left hand as she bends to drink water from her cupped proper right hand. The fountain is an octagonal lamppost with a horse's head on each side above a basin. Water spouts from the horses' mouths.
    Subject: 
    Allegory -- Life -- Childhood
    Figure female -- Child -- Full length
    Portrait female -- Bartsch,
    Animal -- Horse
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- North Carolina -- Asheville
    Fountain
    Light fixture
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Asheville, Downtown Development Office, 29 Haywood Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28801
    Located Urban Trail, Patton Avenue, east end of Pack Square, Asheville, North Carolina
    Remarks: 
    Gift of Betty and Perry Bartsch and family for the City of Asheville's Urban Trail, a 1.6 mile walking tour of the City. The figure was modeled after the Bartschs' two daughters and the fountain was modeled after a lamppost and horsehead fountain shown in postcards from the early 1900s. IAS files include related articles from the Asheville Citizen-Times, Sept. 10, 1995 and Feb. 21, 1996.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, North Carolina survey, 1996.
    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 NC000401
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