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    		• Russin, Robert I.,
     
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    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Figure female -- Child
     
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    		• Allegory -- Arts & Sciences
     
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    		• Architectural component
     
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    		• Relief
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Wyoming -- Laramie
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    (University of Wyoming Education Building Relief), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Russin, Robert I., 1914- , sculptor.
    Title: 
    (University of Wyoming Education Building Relief), (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Late 1940s-early 1950s.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Stone.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 124 x 136 x 8 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On relief, lower right corner): ROBERT/RUSSIN/sculptor signed
    Description: 
    Relief depicting a woman, a young girl, and a youth, seated together in the foreground and involved in an exchange. Woman is dressed in a scarf and long dress, seated in profile, and extends her proper left hand towards the young people. The girl is seated with her back towards the viewer and her face, in profile, turned towards the woman; her proper left hand is extended, palm up. The youth kneels, places proper left hand on hip and extends proper right hand towards the woman; he holds a small object between thumb and index finger. The figures are in low relief; behind them, a landscape of buildings and mountains in the distance, rendered schematically in inscribed lines.
    Subject: 
    Figure female -- Full length
    Figure male -- Full length
    Figure female -- Child -- Full length
    Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Education
    Object Type: 
    Architectural component
    Relief
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Wyoming -- Laramie
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by University of Wyoming, Physical Plant, 15th & Lewis, P. O. Box 3227, Laramie, Wyoming 82071
    Located University of Wyoming, Education Building, main entrance, Laramie, Wyoming
    Remarks: 
    Title supplied by Inventory cataloger.
    Russin joined the University of Wyoming faculty in 1947, and in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he completed a series of bas-reliefs and plaques for campus buildings, including the Education Building, Agriculture Building, Knight Hall, the Commerce and Industry Building and the Law Building.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Wyoming 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 WY000013
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