Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Kohler, Max,
Gray, William,
Hobbs, Isaac H.,
Isaac H. Hobbs & Son,
Animal -- Lion
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Sculpture
Lions, (sculpture).
Artist:
Kohler, Max, carver.
Gray, William, contractor.
Hobbs, Isaac H., architect.
Isaac H. Hobbs & Son, architectural firm.
Title:
Lions, (sculpture).
Dates:
1869-1871.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Brownstone.
Dimensions:
2 lions. Each lion: approx. 2 ft. 6 in. x 6 ft. x 3 1/2 ft.
Inscription:
unsigned
Description:
Guardian lions flank the entrance to the bank.
Subject:
Animal -- Lion
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Sculpture
Owner:
Dollar Savings Bank, Risk and Facilities, Fourth Avenue at Smithfield Street, Entrance, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15642
Remarks:
The bank building which was designed by Isaac Hobbs and executed by William Gray, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. According to the Evert publication, William Gray provided the lions and Max Kohler carved the animals on the site. IAS files contain related information from: Van Trump,James, "Lions in the Streets," Carnegie Magazine (February 1960), pg. 41-52 and Van Trump, James, "Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh," Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 1983, pg. 47-52.
References:
Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, pg. 81.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, PA0166, 1989.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, pg. 121.
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 64480050
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
64480050
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.0
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact
Login
Help
