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    		• Pedon, Eugenio,
     
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    		• Bell, M. E.,
     
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    		• Figure female -- Full length
     
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    		• Allegory -- Arts & Sciences
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Industry, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Pedon, Eugenio, sculptor.
    Bell, M. E., architect.
    Title: 
    Industry, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Stone Maidens, (sculpture).
    Ladies of Stone, (sculpture).
    Stone Ladies, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1889. Relocated 1966. Relocated 1983.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Maine granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Figure: approx. 6 ft. 6 in. x 4 ft. x 4 ft. 9 in.; Base: approx. 2 ft. 3 in. x 1 ft. 8 in. x 4 ft.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    Loosely draped seated female figure holding a mold in her proper left hand. Sculpture is installed opposite the restaurant, underneath of the overpass leading to the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Terminal.
    Subject: 
    Figure female -- Full length
    Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Industry
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 1 Station Square, Suite 450, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
    Located Grand Concourse Restaurant, Station Square, underneath overpass leading to Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Terminal, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club, William Penn Way, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1966-1983.
    Formerly located Old Post Office Building, Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1892-1966.
    Remarks: 
    Inscription on nearby plaque reads: Sculpture Old Post Office,/Smithfield Street, c. 1890/The Federal building and Post Office of Pittsburgh/was built between 1881 and 1891 to a design made under the direction of several federal supervising architects./ The style was a free version of French Renaissance and/included pediment sculptures in Maine Granite by/Eugenio Pedon of Washington, D.C. These "Ladies of Stone," saved by the Pittsburgh History and/Landmarks Foundation after an extensive campaign when the Post/Office was demolished in 1966, symbolized navigation,/industry, and enlightenment by holding a rudder, a steam/engine, and a piece of electrical equipment.
    One figure of a three-figure grouping (the other two represent Navigation and Enlightenment) which were once installed along with an identical three-figure grouping on the roof of the Old Post Office Building on Smithfield Street. Pedon's models of the figures were sent to East Blue Hill, Maine were they were carved by workmen at a quarry. In 1966, when redevelopment of Pittsburgh's downtown called for the demolition of the Old Post Office, the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) campaigned to raise funds for relocating the sculptures. Both sets of figure groupings were displayed around the city before eventually being relocated. One complete three-figure grouping was displayed at the Edge Restaurant, but the figures were later split up with Industry and Navigation placed near the entrance to the parking garage of the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation property at Station Square. The figure of Enlightenment is still located at the site of the Edge Restaurant now named the Grandview One Restaurant. The figures of Navigation and Enlightenment from the second grouping became part of the sculpture collection at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum, and the figure of Industry, first displayed at the Harvard-Princeton-Yale Club, was later permanently installed across from the entrance to the Grand Concourse Restaurant at Station Square in 1983.
    IAS files contain related information from Trump, James Van, "Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh," Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 1983, pg. 45-46; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 3, 1966,August 8, 1966, pg. 12, August 15, 1966, August 29, 1966, and September 14, 1966 which describe the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation attempts to raise funds for the relocation of the figures. IAS files also contain related article from the Pittsburgh Press Roto, December 17, 1972 which includes images of the figures in former locations.
    References: 
    Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, pg. 146, 13-14.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, PA0179, PA0180, 1989.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh,PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, pg. 152.
    Related Works: 
    Companion to: PA000217.
    Companion to: 64480017.
    Related to: 64480016.
    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 64480018
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