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Alpha Delta Phi Brothers in Arms, (sculpture). Artist:  Aitken, Robert, 1878-1949, sculptor. Roman Bronze Works, founder. Title:  Alpha Delta Phi Brothers in Arms, (sculpture). Dates:  ca. 1920. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Bronze. Dimensions:  37 x 14 x 16 in. Inscription:  (On base:) AITKEN (copyright symbol) signed Description:  An American and a Canadian soldier, both wounded, and both members of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, helping one another through the fire of battle in World War I. One of them wears his fraternity badge. Subject:  Figure group -- Male Occupation -- Military -- Soldier State of Being -- Illness -- Wound Ethnic -- Canadian Emblem Architecture exterior -- Military -- Battlefield Object Type:  Sculpture Owner:  Alpha Delta Phi International Inc., 6126 Lincoln Avenue, Morton Grove, Illinois 60053 Remarks:  Commissioned as a memorial to the Canadian and American members of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War I, by the Alpha Delta Phi International Convention held February 20-21, 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio. $25,000 was raised to place a copy in each chapter house, with the first three copies placed at chapters at Hamilton College, Cornell University, and the University of Michigan. Subsequent authorized copies have been made as recently as 2013. A few copies were made in a reduced size. It is traditional for fraternity members to rub the fraternity badge on the sculpture with their fingers to polish it, leaving the rest of the sculpture with its patina. References:  Owner, 2014. 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 71501242   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 71501242 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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