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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Roine, Jules Edouard,     Figure group -- Male & Child     Object -- Written Matter     Homage -- Sullivan, Algernon Sydney     Homage -- Fisher, Hubert F.     Relief     Outdoor Sculpture -- Tennessee -- Memphis     Sculpture

(Hubert F. Fisher Memorial Garden Bench Medallion), (sculpture). Artist:  Roine, Jules Edouard, 1857-1916, sculptor. Title:  (Hubert F. Fisher Memorial Garden Bench Medallion), (sculpture). Other Titles:  (Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medallion), (sculpture). Dates:  1931. Medallion 1907. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Bronze relief medallion set into a stone and concrete bench with wooden panel. Dimensions:  Relief medallion: approx. 12 1/2 x 18 1/2 x 1/2 in.; Bench: approx. 74 x 96 x 41 in. Inscription:  (Bronze relief medallion, along bottom edge:) THE ALGERNON SYDNEY SULLIVAN MEDALLION ESTABLISHED BY THE NEW YORK SOUTHERN SOCIETY 1925 (Bronze relief medallion, center section, lower right corner:) J. E. Roine (Right side of bronze relief medallion is inscribed with a Lowell poem.) (Left side of bronze relief medallion:) Original memorial medallion, 1907/Sullivan Memorial Fountain (On wooden panel:) O PAINTER OF THE FRUIT AND FLOWERS/WE THANK THEE FOR THY WISE DESIGN/WHEREBY THESE HUMAN HANDS OF OURS/IN NATURE'S GARDEN WORK WITH THINE (On stone panel:) HUBERT F. FISHER MEMORIAL GARDEN signed Description:  A bronze relief medallion set into the center of a stone bench. The relief is divided into three sections, with inscriptions on the outer two sections and a figure group in the arched center section. The center section is a relief of a man and a boy wearing classical drapery. The man appears to be lighting the boy's torch with his own. The boy holds a book in his proper right hand. Ivy grows next to the man's proper right foot. Just above the bronze relief, set into the stone bench, is a horizontal wooden panel with an inscription. Just above the wooden panel is a stone panel also inscribed with text. Subject:  Figure group -- Male & Child Object -- Written Matter -- Book Homage -- Sullivan, Algernon Sydney Homage -- Fisher, Hubert F. Object Type:  Relief Outdoor Sculpture -- Tennessee -- Memphis Sculpture Owner:  Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway, Fisher Memorial Garden, entrance, Memphis, Tennessee 38112 Remarks:  Title supplied by Inventory cataloger. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Tennessee 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 TN000109   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture TN000109 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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