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Ambition, (painting). Artist:  Dodge, William de Leftwich, 1867-1935, painter. Title:  Ambition, (painting). Digital Reference:  Description:  Ceiling panel depicting a group of figures at the summit of a mountain reaching toward the sky for the Unattainable Ideal, represented by a figure riding a white horse and holding a palm branch aloft. Fame holds the horse's bridle and sounds her trumpet to the figures on the mountain top. Subject:  Allegory -- Quality -- Grandeur Allegory -- Quality -- Determination Figure group Object Type:  Mural Painting Owner:  Library of Congress, 10 1st Street, S.E., Northwest Pavilion, ceiling, Washington, District of Columbia 20540 Remarks:  A design for this mural was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1896 as "'L'Ambition,' (Plafond destinee a la Bibliotheque Nationale de Washington." References:  Brochure of the Mural Painters, a National Society Founded 1895, New York: the Kalkhoff Company, 1916. Kimbrough, Leftwich D., 1989. Small, Herbert, "The Library of Congress: its architecture and decoration," New York: Norton, 1982, pg. 151-152. Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pg. 177. Illustration:  Image on file. Small, Herbert, "The Library of Congress: its architecture and decoration," New York: Norton, 1982, pg. 149. Kimbrough, Sara Dodge, "Drawn from Life," Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1976. Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, fig. 71. 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:  IAP 86130445   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 86130445 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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