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    		• Dejean, Louis,
     
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    		• David, Ismar,
     
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    		• Fonderie Cooperative Des Artistes,
     
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    		• Allegory -- Civic
     
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    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
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    		• Dress -- Historic
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Babylon
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Pax, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Dejean, Louis, b. 1872, sculptor.
    David, Ismar, designer.
    Fonderie Cooperative Des Artistes, founder.
    Title: 
    Pax, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Peace, Lady of the Normandie, (sculpture).
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze with a golden brown patina; Base: white Georgia marble and dark green Italian granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 11 x 3 x 3 ft. (1 1/2 tons).
    Inscription: 
    (On plinth, north side:) Lewis Dejean - Statuaire 6 rue de St. James Neuilly/Seine (On plinth, south side:) Fonderie/Cooperative/des Artists/Paris (Biblical text from Numbers 6:24-26 is incised on the green surface on the east side of the wall) signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    Full-length female figure in Classical drapery holds an olive or laurel branch in her extended proper right hand. The sculpture is mounted in a larger monument stepped setting that includes planting troughs in front of it.
    Subject: 
    Allegory -- Civic -- Peace
    Figure female -- Full length
    Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Babylon
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Pinelawn Memorial Park, Department T, Box 420, Farmingdale, New York 11735
    Located Pinelawn Memorial Park, Garden of the Normandie, Babylon, New York
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was originally installed in the dining room of the French luxury liner, the Normandie. The ship was destroyed by fire in the Hudson River in Feb. 1942 as it was being converted to a troop ship. The sculpture survived and it was acquired by the cemetery after being discovered dismantled in a Brooklyn churchyard. Ismar David designed the base and setting. IAS files contain the text of nearby associated plaques, a brochure from the cemetery, and excerpts from the books "Long Island: a Guide to New York's Suffolk and Nassau Counties," by Raymond Spinzia (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1991) and "Picture History of the Normandie," by Frank O. Braynard (New York: Dover Publications, 1987).
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York 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 NY001641
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