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Alluvium, (sculpture). Artist:  Sanborn, Jim, 1945- , sculptor. Title:  Alluvium, (sculpture). Dates:  2011. Dedicated May 2011. Medium:  Bronze, granite, and light. Dimensions:  Overall: approx. W. 300 ft. Description:  This abstract sculpture, which celebrates the history and natural attributes of the White Flint area and the Potomac River, consists of a vertical bronze cylinder encircled with phrases in foreign languages, and quotes in English from explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, President Thomas Jefferson, and naturalist John Muir. The words perforate the bronze cylinder and light from within projects the words around the surrounding granite plaza. Nearby, water flows along an undulating wall of white granite to symbolize the path of the Potomac River from the Shenandoah Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay. Subject:  Abstract History -- United States -- Maryland Landscape -- River -- Potomac River History -- United States -- Lewis & Clark Homage -- Jefferson, Thomas Homage -- Muir, John Object Type:  Sculpture Fountain Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- North Bethesda Owner:  Administered by JBG Companies, 4445 Willard Avenue, Suite 400, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815 Located North Bethesda Market, 11333 Woodglen Drive, Plaza, North Bethesda, Maryland 20852 Remarks:  The sculpture, which took six years to finish, was commissioned by JBG Companies for the outdoor shopping plaza at the North Bethesda Market, off Rockville Pike, south of the White Flint Metro station. References:  Washington Post, June 12, 2011, pg. E4. Illustration:  Washington Post, June 12, 2011, pg. E4. 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 71500981   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 71500981 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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