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Beyond the Call, (sculpture). Artist:  Worthen, William M., sculptor. Title:  Beyond the Call, (sculpture). Dates:  1991. Dedicated Sept. 12, 1991. Medium:  Sculpture: Pyramid blue granite; Foundation: concrete. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 5 ft. 6 in. x 7 ft. x 7 ft.; Foundation: approx. 2 in. x 7 ft. 4 in. x 7 ft. 4 in. Inscription:  (Incised within facsimile of police badge on exterior surface of one wall:) ALBUQUERQUE/POLICE (On seal within badge:) GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO/1912 (Incised beneath badge:) APD XERISCAPE GARDEN/This garden is dedicated to/the memory of those APD officers who have lost/their lives in service to the City of Albuquerque. (Incised on exterior surface of other wall: listing of eleven Albuquerque police officers who died in the line of duty, with the dates of their deaths) unsigned Description:  Two granite walls set at right angles to each other and meeting at their apex. At the corner on each wall is a square, fluted pilaster. The exterior faces of the walls are finished and smooth, and bear inscriptions memorializing Albuquerque police officers who have died in the line of duty. A bas-relief facsimile of an Albuquerque police badge is carved in the exterior face of one wall. Each wall is in the approximate shape of a rough-edged, vertical quadrant. The pilasters and their oak leaf decorations are meant to symbolize such qualities of police officers as stability, faith, virtue and endurance against adversity, and their role as supporting pillars of justice. Subject:  Occupation -- Service -- Policeman Dress -- Accessory -- Jewelry Object Type:  Relief Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Albuquerque, Public Art Program, P. O. Box 1293, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103 Located Albuquerque Police Department Police Substation, 8201 Osuna Road NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico Remarks:  The sculpture, a memorial to Albuquerque police officers killed in the line of duty, is in a public garden. It lists the names of eleven officers who have been killed. It was commissioned under the City of Albuquerque's One Percent for Art program. The granite was quarried in Georgia. IAS files contain names of deceased officers and description and maintenance instructions from the sculptor. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Mexico survey, 1993. 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 NM000075   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NM000075 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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