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Happy Landings, (sculpture). Artist:  Goldman, Samuel, 1882-1969, sculptor. Title:  Happy Landings, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Boy and Girl Admiring the Accomplishments of Industry, (sculpture). Dates:  ca. 1915 - 1934. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Painted concrete, stucco. Inscription:  unsigned Description:  Private residence with several sculptural elements. A decorated pillar with an engineering theme supports the corner of a porch roof. The pillar has a wheel near the top and is capped with an airplane propeller. Several bas-reliefs decorate the outside surface of the house. These include a swan, a stork and the full-length figures of a boy and girl in proper left profile. Other scenes depict a man operating a pneumatic drill. On the porch wall is the plaster copy of a magazine cover picture: a man looking over his shoulder. In the yard is a birdbath; the bowl of the birdbath is supported by a pedestal formed like a human arm. The bowl sits on an open human hand. Subject:  Animal -- Bird -- Swan Animal -- Bird -- Stork Figure group Figure -- Fragment -- Arm Object -- Tool -- Drill Object -- Other -- Wheel Architecture -- Vehicle -- Airplane Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Piscataway Relief Architectural component Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Goldman, Leo O., 49 Upper Road, Sandwich, New Hampshire 03227 Located 143 School Street, Piscataway, New Jersey Remarks:  "Happy Landings" is the title given to the relief of the stork. The relief of the boy and girl is entitled: "Boy and Girl Admiring the Accomplishments of Industry." The house and artist were featured in a February 1937 article in The Sunday Times (New Brunswick, NJ). IAS files contain copy of related article. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1994. Illustration:  Image on file. 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 NJ000599   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NJ000599 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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