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    		• Myers, Jim,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Parker, Charlie
     
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    		• Performing Arts -- Music
     
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    		• Object -- Musical Instrument
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Kansas City
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Bird, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Myers, Jim, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Bird, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated Nov. 2000.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture:steel; Base: brick.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: 5 ft. 5 in. x 6 ft. x 2 ft.; Base: 3 ft. 5 in. x 3 ft. x 3 ft.
    Inscription: 
    Jim Myers 2000 (Welded on base:) Bird signed
    Description: 
    Standing figure of famous jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie "Bird" or "Yardbird" Parker (1920-1955) playing his saxophone. He has bird feet and a feathered wing for a right arm. The sculpture is constructed with welded strips of steel. The saxophone is white.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Parker, Charlie -- Full length
    Performing Arts -- Music -- Saxophone
    Object -- Musical Instrument -- Saxophone
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Kansas City
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    New Point Grill, 917 West 44th Street, Kansas City, Missouri
    Remarks: 
    For additional information see the Kansas City Star, Nov. 9. 2000, pg. E6.
    References: 
    Kansas City Adopt A Monument, 2003.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Kansas City Star, Nov. 9. 2000, pg. E6.
    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 74870019
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