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King Memorial, (sculpture). Artist:  Gladstone, Gerald, sculptor. Williams, Harold, architect. Title:  King Memorial, (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated 1978. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Painted concrete. Inscription:  unsigned (Lower left:) Description:  Abstract installation consisting of 15 vertical white concrete sections centered around a high inner brown circle. The sections fan out around the bottom and rise into a central opening. The sculpture stands directly on a grass medium in the center of a plaza. Subject:  Homage -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. Occupation -- Other -- Reformer Abstract -- Geometric Ethnic -- African American Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Compton Sculpture Owner:  Administered by State of California, Sacramento, California Located Compton Civic Center, Acacia & Compton, Compton, California Provenance:  Formerly administered by County of Los Angeles, Courts Department, Los Angeles, California Remarks:  The artwork is part of courthouse property transferred from the County of Los Angeles to the State of California. Nearby plaque: "King Memorial. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968. 'I've been to the mountain top'. Memphis, Tenn. April 5, 1968. Los Angeles County - City of Compton Civic Center Authority. 1978. Harold L. Williams A.I.A. Architect Planner Los Angeles, Calif. Gerald Gladstone consulting sculptor." SOS! survey indicates that sculpture is administered by one of the courthouses on the Civic Center plaza. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995. Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Civic Art Program, 2015. 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 CA001255   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CA001255 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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