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    		• Alford, Rosie Sandifer,
     
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    		• House Bronze,
     
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    		• Portrait female -- Alford, Jamie
     
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    		• Allegory -- Life
     
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    		• Recreation -- Sport & Play
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- Lubbock
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Freedom of Youth, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Alford, Rosie Sandifer, 1946- , sculptor.
    House Bronze, founder.
    Title: 
    Freedom of Youth, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    June 1986. Cast Aug. 1986. Dedicated Nov. 1, 1986.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 9 ft.
    Description: 
    Eleven year old Jamie Alford stands swinging on a rope. She reaches up with both hands to hold the rope, her head flung back, her bare proper right foot in the rope's loop. She has a ponytail, and wears a short-sleeved shirt with collar, and pants. The sculpture is placed in the center of a fountain and the rope's tassel appears to drag in the water. Eight water spouts are arranged in a half-circle around the tassel, spouting water away from it. The base is submerged.
    Subject: 
    Portrait female -- Alford, Jamie -- Full length
    Allegory -- Life -- Youth
    Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Swinging
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- Lubbock
    Fountain
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Texas Tech University, College of Arts and Sciences, 202 Holden Hall, Lubbock, Texas 79409
    Located Texas Tech University, Holden Hall, Lubbock, Texas
    Remarks: 
    Cast no. 1/2. The artist was inspired to create the sculpture by watching her daughter swing on a rope. The casting of the sculpture cost $12,000, installation cost $800. The sculpture was donated by the artist and her patrons. A nearby plaque reads: "Freedom of Youth/Rosie Sandifer Alford/1986/Donated by Patrons of the Arts/Freedom to Dream/To Live Without Worry/To Soar in Your Imagination/To Face the Future Unafraid/This is the 'Freedom of Youth'/'Backward, Turn Backward, O Time in Your Flight/Make Me a Child Again for Tonight'/Elizabeth Ackers Allen."
    IAS files contain a fundraising letter by the artist dated Aug. 5, 1986; a Sept. 22, 1986 Press Release from Texas Tech's College of Arts and Sciences; and a copy of the dedication program.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Texas survey, 1994.
    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 TX000744
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