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  • Bourdelle, Emile Antoine,
     
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  • Unknown (Switzerland),
     
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  • Mythology -- Classical
     
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  • Figure female
     
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  • Outdoor Sculpture -- Hawaii -- Honolulu
     
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    La Grande Penelope, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Bourdelle, Emile Antoine, 1861-1929, sculptor.
    Unknown (Switzerland), founder.
    Title: 
    La Grande Penelope, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Modeled 1912.; Cast 1956.
    Medium: 
    Bronze.
    Dimensions: 
    H. 8 ft.
    Description: 
    A standing woman in a long dress with her chin resting on her proper left hand and her eyes lowered in a pensive attitude.
    Subject: 
    Mythology -- Classical -- Penelope
    Figure female
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Hawaii -- Honolulu
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Honolulu Academy of Arts, 900 South Beretania Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814 Accession Number: 3334.1
    Provenance: 
    Acquired in 1965.
    Remarks: 
    Cast no. 4.
    Cast posthumously under the supervision of Madame Cleopatra Bourdelle.
    References: 
    Radford, Georgia & Warren, "Sculpture in the Sun: Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces," Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978.
    Illustration: 
    Radford, Georgia & Warren, "Sculpture in the Sun: Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces," Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978, pp. 36-37.
    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 87600023
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