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    		• Adams, Joseph Richard,
     
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    		• Tacca, Pietro,
     
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    		• Animal -- Pig
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Arkansas -- Little Rock
     
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    Wild Boar, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Adams, Joseph Richard, sculptor.
    Tacca, Pietro, 1577-1640, sculptor. (copy after)
    Title: 
    Wild Boar, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Wild Boar of Florence, (sculpture).
    Floyd W. Sharp Memorial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1976. Relocated 1990. Sept. 7, 1990.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze with patina; Base: fieldstone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 49 x 26 x 59 in.; Base: 28 x 47 x 78 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On metal plaque on top of base, between boar's front feet, raised lettering:) WISH GOOD FORTUNE/FOR YOUR CHILDREN/AND THE CHILDREN WHO/VISIT THE LITTLE ROCK ZOO/RUB HIS NOSE/DROP A COIN. (On metal plaque on front of base, raised lettering:) FLOYD W. SHARP MEMORIAL/PRESENTED BY/LITTLE ROCK SERTOMA CLUB/TO/THE LITTLE ROCK ZOO/CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED GO TO IMPROVE THE/LITTLE ROCK ZOO FOR THE BENEFIT OF VISITING CHILDREN (On plaque on top of base, right side, raised lettering:) THIS BRONZE IS ONE OF FOUR/REPLICAS OF THE FAMOUS WILD BOAR/OF FLORENCE LOCATED AT THE/ENTRANCE OF THE STRAW MARKET/IN THAT HISTORICAL ITALIAN CITY./THE ORIGINAL WAS CARVED IN/MARBLE BY THE GREEKS BEFORE THE/TIME OF CHRIST. LATER THE ROMANS/MADE A COPY WHICH IS NOW IN/THE UFFIZI GALLERY. IN 1937 THE ITALIAN ARTIST BENELLI CAST IT/IN BRONZE WHICH IS NOW LOCATED/IN KANSAS CITY, THIS BRONZE IS/THE WORK OF JOSEPH RICHARD/ADAMS COMMISSIONED IN 1974 BY/THE SERTOMA CLUB OF LITTLE ROCK/AND COMPLETED IN 1979. IN LITTLE/ROCK AS IN FLORENCE, THE COINS/ARE GIVEN FOR THE BENEFIT OF/CHILDREN unsigned
    Description: 
    A male wild boar stands on its front feet with head erect and rear reclined with rear feet extended parallel to the proper right. The sculpture has a bronze/green patina. The sculpture is mounted on an irregularly-shaped rectangular base. There is a coin slot on the top front of the base between the wild boar's feet.
    Subject: 
    Animal -- Pig
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Arkansas -- Little Rock
    Copy
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Little Rock Zoo, 1 Jonesboro Drive, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205
    Located Little Rock Zoo, 1 Jonesboro Drive, South entrance to Lion House, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Sertoma Club, Arkansas
    Formerly located Little Rock Regional Airport, In passenger terminal near Adams Field, Little Rock, Arkansas
    Formerly located Camelot Hotel, Markham & Broadway, In front, Little Rock, Arkansas
    Remarks: 
    The artist was commissioned by the Little Rock Chapter of the Sertoma Club in 1974 or 1976 to create the sculpture. The sculpture is copied after Pietro Tacca's 1639 bronze, which was based on an ancient Roman marble copy (now at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy) of the Greek original. The sculpture was originally located in front of the Camelot Hotel in Little Rock from May 1976 until 1990, when it was relocated to a passenger terminal at the Little Rock Regional Airport for a few months. It was removed by the Sertoma Club shortly thereafter, placed in storage, and later placed at the Little Rock Zoo in front of the Lion House on September 7, 1990. The Sertoma Club presented the sculpture to the zoo in memory of Floyd W. Sharp.
    According to legend, the wild boar is the protector of children. By rubbing his nose and making a wish, good fortune will be granted. In May of 1992, the Sertoma Club added bronze signs to the front of the sculpture soliciting zoo visitors to rub the nose of the wild boar for luck and drop a coin in the coin slot in the base. Passers-by regularly do so. At one time the sculpture was painted with a primer that turned it a greenish-gray color. The sculpture has since been stripped of this primer. IAS files contain a related article from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Aug. 20, 1992, pg. B1; an undated excerpt from the Little Rock Zoo newsletter; and a clipping from a 1992 Sertoma International publication highlighting the sculpture.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arkansas survey, 1992.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Aug. 20, 1992, pg. B1.
    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 AR000270
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