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    		• Brecher, Melita,
     
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    		• Modern Art Foundry,
     
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    		• Figure group
     
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    		• Occupation -- Sport
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Maine -- Brunswick
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Time Out, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Brecher, Melita, sculptor.
    Modern Art Foundry, founder.
    Title: 
    Time Out, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1990. Copyrighted 1990.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: black granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 4 ft. x 4 ft. 3 in. x 2 ft. 4 in.; Base: approx. 31.5 x 55.5 x 29.75 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left back of sculpture:) Melita Westerlund Brecher 1990 (Lower right back of sculpture:) (foundry symbol) signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    Three running figures are leaning forward as they run. The leading figure has his arms bent at the elbow and extended in front of him. His proper right leg is raised behind him and touches the proper right leg of the middle figure whose leg is extended forward. The middle runner has his proper left leg raised and extended behind him. The proper right arm of the middle figure is attached to the proper left hand of the third and last figure. The third figure is the tallest of the three and is standing on his proper left leg while his proper right leg is raised and extended behind him. The
    Subject: 
    Figure group
    Occupation -- Sport -- Track & Field
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Maine -- Brunswick
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Bowdoin College, Physical Plant, Brunswick, Maine 04011
    Located Bowdoin College, In front of Farley Field House, Brunswick, Maine 04011
    Remarks: 
    The artist, Melita Brecher was selected to design the sculpture after a two year search by members of the Field House Sculpture Advisory Committee, appointed by President A. LeRoy Greason. Funds for the $25,000 sculpture were raised by a group of alumni, students, coaches and friends, who ran in a "Run One for Bowdoin" challenge race in the 1986 Boston Marathon. The sculpture is covered with a patina. IAS files contain related article from Sundial (Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College), vol. 1, no. 6, 1989/90.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maine survey, 1993.
    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 ME000026
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