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Jones, Thomas Hudson,
Githins, Alfred Morton,
Keally, Francis,
Portrait male -- Whitman, Walt
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Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Brooklyn
Sculpture
Brooklyn Public Library: Screen, (sculpture).
Artist:
Jones, Thomas Hudson, 1892-1969, sculptor.
Githins, Alfred Morton, architect.
Keally, Francis, architect.
Title:
Brooklyn Public Library: Screen, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Screen, (sculpture).
Bronze Grille, h(sculpture).
Dates:
1938-39.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. H. 40 ft.
Description:
Above the entrance are fifteen bronze panels arranged in three vertical rows to create a decorative screen depicting characters and authors from American fiction. From top to bottom: (left side) Hester Prynne, Babe the Blue Ox, Rip Van Winkle, Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer; (center) Don Marquis, Hiawatha, Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, Walt Whitman, Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; (right side) Louisa May Alcott's Meg, Jack London's White Fang, James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo, Edgar Allan Poe's Raven, and the narrator of "Two Years before the Mast," Charles Dana.
Subject:
Portrait male
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Whitman, Walt
Occupation
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Writer
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Poet
Literature
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Character
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Hester Prynne
Literature
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Hawthorne
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Scarlet Letter
Literature
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Character
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Babe the Blue Ox
Literature
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Character
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Hiawatha
Literature
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Longfellow
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Song of Hiawatha
Literature
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Character
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Tom Sawyer
Literature
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Twain
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Huckleberry Finn
Literature
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Character
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Rip Van Winkle
Literature
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Irving
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Rip Van Winkle
Literature
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Character
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Moby Dick
Literature
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Melville
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Moby Dick
Literature
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Character
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Don Marquis
Literature
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Character
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Brer Rabbit
Literature
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Character
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Tar Baby
Literature
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Harris
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Uncle
Remus
Literature
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Character
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Wynken
Literature
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Character
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Blynken
Literature
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Character
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Nod
Literature
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Field
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Wynken, Blynken and Nod
Literature
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Character
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Meg
Literature
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Alcott
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Little Women
Literature
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Character
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White Fang
Literature
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London
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Call of the Wild
Literature
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Character
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Natty Bumppo
Literature
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Cooper
Literature
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Character
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Raven
Literature
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Poe
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Raven
Literature
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Dana
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Two Years before the Mast
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture
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New York
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Brooklyn
Sculpture
Owner:
Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Entrance, Brooklyn, New York 11238
Remarks:
IAS files contain a copy of a 1942 library brochure which includes transcriptions of the quotations by Roscoe and other famous authors that appear on the exterior of the building. For related information see Brown, Roscoe, C. E., "Brooklyn Public Library," Chicago: Lakeside Press. Alfred Morton Githins and Francis Keally are the architects who took over the design of the library in 1937.
References:
Tampa Museum of Art, 1980.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York, New York survey, 1993.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Howarth, Shirley Reiff, "C. Paul Jennewein: Sculptor," Florida: Tampa Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 122-3.
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 65020105
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