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    		• Singer, Gerald,
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Occupation -- Service
     
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    		• Dress -- Uniform
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Louisiana -- Baton Rouge
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Police Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Singer, Gerald, designer.
    Title: 
    Police Memorial, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Law Enforcement Memorial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated May 15, 1992.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: marble.
    Dimensions: 
    2 figures. Left figure: approx. 5 ft. 4 in. x 22 1/2 in. x 11 in.; Right figure: approx. 5 ft. 6 in. x 21 1/2 in. x 11 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On front of base, incised lettering:) (Left side:) BATON ROUGE POLICE OFFICERS/(names of slain police officers follow) (Right side:) EAST BATON (...transcription illegible)/(names of slain police officers follow) unsigned
    Description: 
    Two male police officers stand at attention, arms at their sides, facing forward. The officer on the left wears a standard police officer hat, a police uniform, a tie, and a gunbelt holding a gun and pouch. The officer on the right wears a wide-brimmed, smokey-style hat, a police uniform, a tie, and a gun and pouch attached to his belt. The figures are mounted atop a platform with a sunken top.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Full length
    Occupation -- Service -- Policeman
    Dress -- Uniform -- Police Uniform
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Louisiana -- Baton Rouge
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Baton Rouge Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, 10777 Greenwell Springs Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
    Located Government Building Plaza, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture honors law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty in Baton Rouge. Proceeds for the sculpture, and the law memorial plaza in which it sits, were raised through the Baton Rouge Law Enforcement Memorial Fund. The sculpture and plaza were dedicated on May 15, 1992, National Police Officers Memorial Day.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Louisiana survey, 1995.
    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 LA000377
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