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Cronin, Joseph,
Figure female -- Nude
Figure female -- Full length
Fountain
Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
Sculpture
The Kilgour Fountain, (sculpture).
Artist:
Cronin, Joseph, sculptor.
Title:
The Kilgour Fountain, (sculpture).
Dates:
Dedicated Nov. 6, 1900.
Medium:
Bronze on a concrete and stone base.
Dimensions:
Female figure: approx. 5 x 2 x 2 ft.; Supporting pedestal: approx. H. 10 ft.; Basin: Diam. 20 ft.
Inscription:
(Carved into stone base on front and back:) Kilgour/Fountain/To The/People/of/Hyde Park/Nov. 6, 1900. (Bronze plaque below the lion head on proper left base:) The Kilgour Fountain/Restored by/Residents, Friends & Merchants/of the Hyde Park Area/for America's Bicentennial.
Description:
The fountain consists of a sculpture of a semi-nude female atop a stone pedestal. The female figure has her proper right arm extended upward above her head, bent at the elbow. Her right arm holds drapery that falls behind her proper left shoulder through her proper left hand, around her waist, behind her proper right leg and down to her feet. Her head is turned to the proper right and she is in a contraposto stance with her proper left leg slightly bent. She stands atop a squared stone pedestal in the center of the basin. Attached to all four sides of the basin are bronze fluted sconce fixtures that hold water spouting from lion's heads. Two bronze lamps are affixed near the top of the pedestal.
Subject:
Figure female -- Nude
Figure female -- Full length
Object Type:
Fountain
Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Park Board, 950 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Located Hyde Park Square, Erie Avenue between Edwards & Michigan Avenues, Cincinnati, Ohio
Remarks:
IAS files contain a related excerpt from Giglierano, Jeffery J., and Deborah A. Overmyer, "The Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati: A Portrait of Two Hundred Years," Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1988. The fountain was donated by Charles Kilgour and designed as a horse trough. At the time of the piece's donation, some alleged the gift was intended to counter ill-feelings stirred up by the Tribune's attacks on public expenditures that benefitted the Kilgour real estate ventures. In 1976, restoration work was undertaken, lowering the lamps and changing the basin areas. See IAS files for photocopies of the statue, before and after restoration. A bronze plaque on sidewalk on proper right of sculpture, reads: The Kilgour Fountain/was redesigned and built by/Eleftherio Karkadoulios/Bronze Art - Cincinnati, Ohio / 1976.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cincinnati survey, 1993.
Eastern Hills Journal Press (Cincinnati, OH), May 25, 1987.
Giglierano, Jeffery J., and Deborah A. Overmyer, "The Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati: A Portrait of Two Hundred Years," Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1988.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Eastern Hills Journal Press (Cincinnati, OH), May 25, 1987.
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 OH000030
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