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Unknown (Italian),
Hicks, Sallie Spears,
Figure group -- Female & Child
Allegory -- Quality
Homage -- Hicks, Sallie Spears
Outdoor Sculpture -- North Carolina -- Wilmington
Sculpture
Memorial to the "Mother of Sorosis" Sallie Spears Hicks, (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown (Italian), sculptor.
Hicks, Sallie Spears, designer.
Title:
Memorial to the "Mother of Sorosis" Sallie Spears Hicks, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Mrs. Sallie Spears Hicks Memorial, (sculpture).
Dates:
Dedicated April 25, 1953. Relocated autumn 1991.
Medium:
Sculpture: marble; Base: marble.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 64 x 54 x 22 in.; Base: approx. 4 x 54 x 19 in.
Inscription:
(On base:) INASMUCH AS YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE...YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME (On plaque:) GIVEN IN MEMORY OF ITS FOUNDER/SALLIE SPEARS HICKS/BY NORTH CAROLINA SOROSIS/THE OLDEST FEDERATED CLUB/IN NORTH CAROLINA/ORGANIZED 1895 unsigned
Description:
Sculpture depicts a woman and a male child. The woman wears a long-sleeved, long dress and reaches out to the boy who is half-seated on a rock. The boy wears tattered clothes and is barefoot. He approaches the woman who originally offered a cup of water held in her proper left hand.
Subject:
Figure group -- Female & Child
Allegory -- Quality -- Charity
Homage -- Hicks, Sallie Spears
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- North Carolina -- Wilmington
Sculpture
Owner:
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, New Hanover County Arboretum, 6206 Oleander Drive, Shade Garden, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403
Provenance:
Originally installed Greenfield Park, South 3rd Street, Wilmington, North Carolina 1953.
Remarks:
Commissioned by the Hicks Memorial Committee, the North Carolina Sorosis Club in honor of their founder, Sallie Spears Hicks. The theme and design of the sculpture was conceived by Mrs. Hicks, who, before her death in 1932, wished to erect a statue in Greenfield Park which she helped establish. The work was installed at the Spillway in Greenfield Park in 1953. Sometime later, vandals broke off the figures' arms. And in the fall of 1991, the sculpture was restored and reinstalled at its present site. For further information see the Sunday Star-News (Wilmington, NC), April 26, 1953.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, North Carolina survey, 1994.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Sunday Star-News (Wilmington, NC), April 26, 1953.
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 NC000402
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Inventory of American Sculpture
NC000402
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