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    		• Vergobbi, Luis,
     
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    		• Stonecraft Company,
     
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    		• Allegory -- Quality
     
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    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
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    		• Object -- Musical Instrument
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Ambridge
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    Harmonie, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Vergobbi, Luis, sculptor.
    Stonecraft Company, fabricator.
    Title: 
    Harmonie, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1966. Dedicated June 29, 1966.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: apple or linden wood, painted; Base: limestone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 79 in. x Diam. 24 in.; Base: approx. H. 8 in. x Diam. 24 in.
    Description: 
    An allegorical female figure representing Harmony stands plucking the strings of a lyre with her proper right hand. Her hair is pulled back in a bun and she wears a sleeveless, ankle-length dress. The sculpture is painted white and placed in the center of an arched, stone pavilion installed in the middle of a circular pond.
    Subject: 
    Allegory -- Quality -- Harmony
    Figure female -- Full length
    Object -- Musical Instrument -- Lyre
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Ambridge
    Fountain
    Copy
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, P. O. Box 1026, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108
    Located Old Economy Village, 1401 Church Street, Garden Pavilion, Ambridge, Pennsylvania
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture is a replacement of the original sculpture of Harmonie carved by William Rush in 1825 for the Harmony Society (see IAS record number PA000702). The originsl sculpture suffered from deterioration and was eventually destroyed in the late 1890s. Though no detailed physical description of William Rush's Harmonie exists, extensive research was conducted by the sculptor Luis Vergobbi, landscape architect Ralph Griswold, and curator Lawrence Thurman to determine how to create the best possibly copy of Harmonie. It was decided that Rush's "The Water Nymph and Bittern" would be used as a model. The sculpture was carved in Italy by Louis Vergobbi of the Stonecraft Company, at the cost of $4,875. Funding for research and creation of the sculpture was made possible by a grant from the W. C. Robinson family of Sewickley.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania 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 PA000703
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