Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Unknown,     Buechner & Orth,     Ingemann & Company,     Mythology -- Classical     Allegory -- Civic     Allegory -- Quality     Object -- Weapon     Outdoor Sculpture -- North Dakota -- Grand Forks     Sculpture

Statue of Themis, (sculpture). Artist:  Unknown, sculptor. Buechner & Orth, architectural firm. Ingemann & Company, contractor. Title:  Statue of Themis, (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated May 20, 1915. Medium:  Copper. Dimensions:  Approx. 80 x 40 x 36 in. Description:  Themis, the Greek Goddess of Justice, stands with her proper left arm raised above her head. In this hand she holds a set of dish-shaped scales. Her proper right hand holds the handle of a sword, its tip pointed down. She wears a loose-fitted robe and a laurel wreath on her head. She stands on a plinth wrapped in a band of laurel leaves. Subject:  Mythology -- Classical -- Themis Allegory -- Civic -- Law Allegory -- Quality -- Justice Object -- Weapon -- Sword Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- North Dakota -- Grand Forks Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Grand Forks County Auditor's Office, Grand Forks County Courthouse, 122 South 5th Street, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58201 Located Grand Forks County Courthouse, 122 South 5th Street, Top of building, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58201 Remarks:  IAS files contain articles pertaining to cornerstone laying and dedication ceremony as well as a copy of the dedication program for the courthouse on which the sculpture stands. Scales held are not original; they replace ones which blew off in a storm. See IAS files for details. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, North Dakota survey, 1992. 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 ND000031   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture ND000031 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact