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    Doors of Memory and Doors of Kansas, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Frazier, Bernard, 1906-1976, sculptor.
    Diaz Foundry, founder.
    Title: 
    Doors of Memory and Doors of Kansas, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Commissioned 1949. 1952. Dedicated June 6, 1955. Two panels recast 1970.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Bronze.
    Dimensions: 
    Each door: approx. 9 ft. x 3 ft. 3 in. x 2 1/4 in. (840 lbs.).
    Inscription: 
    (On top of Aspiration plate on south doors, in cursive:) Bernard Frazier/sculptor/1952 Fondido-E. Ortiz/Mexic-D.F. (On top of south doors:) CEDANT ARMA, HUMANITATI (Along the figures:) ACHIEVEMENT COURAGE ASPIRATION SORROW MEDITATION SILENCE (On top of north doors:) AD ASTA PER ASPERA (Along the figures:) FAITH WORSHIP INVESTIGATION EDUCATION EQUALITY FREEDOM HOMEMAKER PIONEER PLAINSMAN SCOUT EXPLORER NATIVE signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    Twelve bronze relief plaques mounted on two sets of doors on the south and north sides of the World War II Memorial Campanile. On the South doors (Doors of Memory, Let Arms Yield to Humanity), there are two figures for each idea. The ideas are silence, meditation, sorrow, aspiration, courage and achievement. The North doors (Doors of Kansas, To the Stars thru Difficulties) are divided into two themes. The right door is History and the left door is Idealism.
    On the North doors, the three right hand panels, reading upward, depict the native Indian and Coronado, the explorer; the scout who was hunter, trapper and trail maker, with the plainsman, who represents trail-driving, cattle and frontier life; the pioneer settler, holding a plant and pitchfork, and the homemaker with a child held aloft. The left panel represents the ideas for which the state struggled. At the bottom is freedom and equality - a slave with broken chains, and a woman who has won equal rights. In the top panel, a figure with a cross represents religious freedom and another reaching to the stars represents faith and confidence in the future. Chaffs of wheat are depicted on the door hinges and handles.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- World War II
    History -- United States -- Westward Expansion
    Figure group
    Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- History
    Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Education
    Allegory -- Civic -- Liberty
    Allegory -- Passion -- Grief
    Allegory -- Quality -- Fortitude
    Allegory -- Quality -- Faith
    Allegory -- Quality -- Hope
    Allegory -- Other -- Thought
    Allegory -- Other -- Triumph
    Occupation -- Other -- Pioneer
    Allegory -- Senses -- Hearing
    Ethnic -- Indian
    Occupation -- Hunter
    Occupation -- Other -- Explorer
    Object Type: 
    Door
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by University of Kansas, Office of Capital Programs, 351 Strong Hall, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
    Located University of Kansas, War Memorial Campanile, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
    Remarks: 
    The bronze doors were commissioned in 1949 to replace earlier wood doors. The new doors cost $13,500. The sculptor intends the doors to be studied from bottom, right upward, then from bottom, left. The Doors of Memory were a gift of Mr. & Mrs, A. E. Stoddard of Omaha to memorialize their son who was killed in 1945 in Iwo Jima. The Doors of Kansas were a gift of Harry A. Hart, KU student of the early 1900s. The door panels have suffered from vandal's attacks over the years. Two had to be recast in 1970.
    IAS files contain articles from Topeka Daily Capitol, June 5, 1955, pg. 15A and The Oread (Univ. of Kansas), Aug. 21, 1981. IAS files also contain copy of Dedication booklet. See IAS files for additional bibliography.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kansas survey, 1994.
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Kansas City Times, June 7, 1955.
    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 77002798
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