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    		• Alden & Harlow,
     
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    		• Figure group
     
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    		• Mythology -- Classical
     
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    		• Allegory -- Quality
     
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    		• Allegory -- Other
     
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    		• Allegory -- Arts & Sciences
     
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    		• Architectural component
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Tympanum, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Alden & Harlow, architectural firm.
    Title: 
    Tympanum, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1901.
    Medium: 
    Limestone.
    Dimensions: 
    2 reliefs. Each relief: approx. 10 x 12 x 1 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Incised on banner in each tympanum:) PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK unsigned
    Description: 
    Two reliefs, one located in each tympanum over the entrance to the building. In one tympanum, the figures of Mercury and Labor sit back to back, a beehive is between them and a banner stretches out above them.
    Mercury, wearing only a winged helmet, holds a caduceus in his proper left hand and a staff in his proper right hand. Behind him, a loosely draped figure representing Labor holds a hammer in his proper right hand and a staff in his proper left hand. In the other tympanum, the figures of Knowledge and Truth, or Fortune, sit back to back, a beehive is between them and a banner stretches out above them. The female figure holds a staff in her proper right hand and the male figure behind her holds a staff with is proper right hand.
    Subject: 
    Figure group
    Mythology -- Classical -- Mercury
    Allegory -- Quality -- Truth
    Allegory -- Other -- Thought
    Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Industry
    Object Type: 
    Architectural component
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Bank Center, Wood Street & Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Peoples Savings Bank, Wood Street & Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    References: 
    Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, pg. 74-75.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, PA0163, 1989.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.
    Illustration: 
    Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, pg. 112.
    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 64480042
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