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Allen, Frederick Warren,
Figure group -- Nude
Allegory -- Arts & Sciences
Object -- Art Tool
Object -- Art Tool
Object -- Art Tool
Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Relief
Sculpture
Relief of
Painting
, (sculpture).
Artist:
Allen, Frederick Warren, 1888-1961, sculptor.
Title:
Relief of
Painting
, (sculpture).
Dates:
Dedicated 1913.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Relief: granite.
Description:
This relief is one of three allegorical relief panels installed above the Fenway Avenue entrance to the museum's Evans Wing. Allen's relief depicting an allegorical representation of
Painting
is on the far right side of the facade. His panel features a nude male and female figure seated back to back on either side of a relief depicting a garland of fruit draped between two torches. The male figure on the left holds a palette in his proper left hand and in his proper right hand he holds a paint brush up to a canvas. The female figure on the right examines a large bound volume held out in her proper left hand. Allen's relief panel is accompanied by Richard H. Recchia's relief panel on the far left side of the facade (IAS record 76007600) and Bela Lyon Pratt's relief panel in the center (IAS record 76007545).
Subject:
Figure group
--
Nude
Allegory
--
Arts
&
Sciences
--
Painting
Object
--
Art Tool
--
Easel
Object
--
Art Tool
--
Artist's Brush
Object
--
Art Tool
--
Palette
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture
--
Massachusetts
--
Boston
Relief
Sculpture
Owner:
Museum of Fine
Arts
, 465 Huntington Avenue, Above Evans Wing entrance, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997.
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 MA000211
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Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
MA000211
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