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  • Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Danielson
     
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    Danielsonville, Inc. 1854, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Greenamyer, George, 1939- , sculptor.
    Title: 
    Danielsonville, Inc. 1854, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Untitled, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1984. Installed Feb. 1, 1984.
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    Medium: 
    Sculpture: painted wrought mild steel; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 8 ft. 4 in. x 20 ft. 9 in. x 2 1/2 ft.; Each pad: approx. 11 in. x 1 ft. x 1 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Blocks inset into horizontal steel rails, northwest corner:) DANIELSONVILLE INC. 1854/GEORGE MOSSMAN GREENAMYER SCUPLTOR (Southwest corner:) MARCH/1984 (Southeast corner:) COMMISSIONED BY STATE OF CONNECTICUT FOR/QUINEBAUG VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Northeast corner:) THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES/AND THE CONNECTICUT COMMISSION ON THE ARTS signed
    Description: 
    Abstract wheeled mechanism (ten wheels in five pairs) resting on parallel steel rails, supported on three sets of joined steel uprights. The uprights themselves are set on concrete pads.
    Subject: 
    Object -- Other -- Wheel
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Danielson
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Percent for Art Program, 227 Lawrence Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06106 Accession Number: CCA84.2/RCO-92
    Located Quinebaug Valley Community Technical College, Administration, 742 Upper Maple Street, South lawn, Danielson, Connecticut 06239
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was commissioned under the State's Percent for Art, Art in Public Spaces program and was purchased for $18,000. IAS files contain copy of exhibition invitation, "Celebration of the Arts," March 24, 1985, Quinebaug Valley Community College, which lists work as Untitled. Connecticut Commission on the Arts records list title as Danielsonville, Inc. 1854.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.
    Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 1990.
    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 65730040
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