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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Roswell
     
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    Chimera, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Suttman, Paul, 1933-1993, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Chimera, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1959 or 1960.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Bronze.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 35 x 42 x 10 in.
    Description: 
    Relief of a chimera, a mythological creature with a lion's head, goat's body and serpent's tail, mounted on museum's exterior wall.
    Subject: 
    Mythology -- Classical -- Chimaera
    Object Type: 
    Folk
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Roswell
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Roswell Museum and Art Center, 100 West 11th Street, Roswell, New Mexico 88201 Accession Number: 60.15
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Chaves County Medical Auxiliary,
    Remarks: 
    1983 Roswell Museum guide lists execution date as 1959; plaque on sculpture and SOS! survey report give 1960 as execution date. Plaque beneath work on wall reads: CHIMERA BY PAUL SUTTMAN, 1960/GIFT OF/CHAVES COUNTY MEDICAL AUXILERY (sic).
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Mexico survey, 1994.
    Roswell Museum and Art Center, "Guide to the Collections," 1983.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Roswell Museum and Art Center, "Guide to the Collections," 1983, pg. 21.
    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 32980002
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