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    		• Green, Montgomery J.,
     
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    		• Orgian, Fred,
     
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    		• Allegory -- Other
     
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    		• Allegory -- Arts & Sciences
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Nebraska -- Beatrice
     
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    		• Architectural component
     
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    		• Relief
     
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    (Beatrice Municipal Auditorium Relief), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Green, Montgomery J., contractor. (possibly by)
    Orgian, Fred, architect.
    Title: 
    (Beatrice Municipal Auditorium Relief), (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1939. Dedicated 1940.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: silverdale stone; Base: stone and brick.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 26 ft. 6 in. x 18 ft. x 12 in.; Base: approx. 3 in. x 18 in. x 4 ft.
    Description: 
    Architectural sculpture relief is divided into three panels and installed over the entrance to the Beatrice Municipal Auditorium. The center panel features a Mother Nature figure with a child on either side of her holding gardening tools. She wears a crown of sun's rays which illuminate the other panels. Below her are three sheaves of wheat. Figures on either side, three male and one female are engaged in various acts of farming and harvesting. The female figure is churning butter. The lower portions of the panels have decorative floral and cornucopia motifs.
    Subject: 
    Figure group
    Allegory -- Other -- Nature
    Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Agriculture
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Nebraska -- Beatrice
    Architectural component
    Relief
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    City of Beatrice, Board of Public Works, 205 North 4th Street, Beatrice Municipal Auditorium, Beatrice, Nebraska 68310
    Remarks: 
    The Beatrice Municipal Auditorium was erected as a Public Works Administration project. Originally, the relief was to be made of gray Indiana Oolithic (sic) limestone. The proper right hand of the female figure fell off in the 1960s and is now lost. IAS files contain related articles from the Beatrice Daily Sun, Oct. 27, 1939 with a photo of the sculpture intact, and the Lincoln Journal-Star, Aug. 24, 1994. IAS files also include a memo from the City Administrator and copies from the "specs" book used during construction. A contract proposal was sumbitted from Mont. J. Green (Manhattan, Kansas).
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Nebraska survey, 1994.
    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 NE000207
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