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    		• Dine, Jim,
     
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    		• Moose, Michael,
     
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    		• Glaser Associates,
     
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    		• Unknown (Walla Walla, Washington),
     
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    		• Mythology -- Classical
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    		• Copy
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Cincinnati Venus, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Dine, Jim, 1935- , sculptor.
    Moose, Michael, landscape architect.
    Glaser Associates, landscape architect.
    Unknown (Walla Walla, Washington), founder.
    Title: 
    Cincinnati Venus, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Copyrighted 1986. Dedicated March 10, 1988.
    Medium: 
    Figure: bronze; Base: steel; Basin: polished black granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Figure: approx. H. 8 ft. x W. 2 ft.; Base: approx. H. 30 in. x W. 30 in.; Basin: approx. D. 16 in. x Diam. 18 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Lower edge of figure's front:) JIM DINE/(copyright symbol) 1986 (Plaque on basin rim:) Cincinnati Venus/Jim Dine/March 10, 1988 signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A replica of the Venus de Milo in the center of a fountain. The female torso lacks arms and head, and wears a garment secured around her hips and covering her legs. Small openings around her neck emit water into the basin.
    Subject: 
    Mythology -- Classical -- Venus
    Object Type: 
    Fountain
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    Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by David N. Tipton Associates, 6279 Tri Ridge Boulevard Cincinnati, Ohio
    Located Centennial Plaza, Ninth Street & Central Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio
    Remarks: 
    Toni Birckhead conceived the idea of a bicentennial tribute by Dine and worked with Pace Galleries in New York and David N. Tipton Associates to obtain the commission. Tipton purchased the figure for $175,000 for its Centennial Plaza office complex. Centennial Plaza's public ground was designed by Michael Moose of Glaser Associates. IAS files contain related articles from Cincinnati Arts 1 (Fall/Winter 1988): pg. 105; The Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 24, 1985 and Oct. 30, 1993. IAS files also contain excerpt from Elizabeth Scheurer, "A Guide to Public Art in Downtown Cincinnati," Contemporary Art Center, pg. 8.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cincinnati survey, 1992.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    The Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 24, 1993, pg. G1.
    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 OH000228
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