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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Tiffany and Company,     Keck, Charles,     Portrait male -- Aesculapius     Portrait male -- Pasteur, Louis     Portrait male -- McDowell, Ephraim     Portrait male -- Lister, Joseph     Portrait male -- Osler, William     Portrait male -- Gorgas, William Crawford     Occupation -- Medicine     Occupation -- Science     Animal -- Reptile     Landscape -- Panama     Door     Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Chicago     Sculpture

(Murphy Memorial Building Doors), (sculpture). Artist:  Tiffany and Company, design firm. Keck, Charles, 1875-1951, designer. (possibly by) Title:  (Murphy Memorial Building Doors), (sculpture). Dates:  1925. Medium:  Bronze. Inscription:  IN APPRECIATION/OF/DR. NORMAN BRIDGE/EMINENT PHYSICIAN/& DESTINGUISHED (sic)/1844 PHILANTHROPIST 1925/PRESENTED/BY/HIS & COMPANION/ADMIRER & BUSINESS/ASSOCIATES/EDW. L. DOHENY (Top left panel:) AESCVLALIVS (Middle left panel:) McDOWELL (Bottom left panel:) OSLER (Top right panel:) PASTEVR (Middle right panel:) LISTER (Bottom right panel:) GORGAS Description:  A door with bronze panels, two decorative and six depicting historical medical figures: Aesculapius, Louis Pasteur, Ephraim McDowell, Joseph Lister, Sir William Osler and William Crawford Gorgas. Aesculapius stands beside the tree of knowledge. He holds a staff entwined with a serpent, the familiar symbol of healing. Pasteur is shown working in his laboratory; McDowell and Lister are depicted performing surgery; Osler is shown with students at a patient's bedside; and Gorgas, known for his work with yellow fever, is depicted with workers building the Panama Canal. Subject:  Portrait male -- Aesculapius -- Full length Portrait male -- Pasteur, Louis -- Full length Portrait male -- McDowell, Ephraim -- Full length Portrait male -- Lister, Joseph -- Full length Portrait male -- Osler, William -- Full length Portrait male -- Gorgas, William Crawford -- Full length Occupation -- Medicine -- Doctor Occupation -- Science -- Scientist Animal -- Reptile -- Snake Landscape -- Panama Object Type:  Door Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Chicago Sculpture Owner:  American College of Surgeons, 50 East Erie Street, John B. Murphy Memorial Building, Chicago, Illinois 60611 Remarks:  IAS files contain a copy of the American College of Surgeons' paper titled, "The Erie News," discussing the doors and each of the bronze reliefs depicted. The bronze doors were contracted for production through the Tiffany Studios at a cost of 19,650 dollars. It is believed that a clay sculpture for the doors designed by Tiffany artist Charles Keck was used by a foundry to cast the doors in bronze. Title supplied by Inventory cataloger. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Illinois, Chicago 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 IL000444   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture IL000444 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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