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    		• Clover, James,
     
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    		• Landscape -- Marsh
     
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    		• Animal -- Bird
     
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    		• Object -- Foliage
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Michigan -- St. Joseph
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    The Marsh, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Clover, James, 1938- , sculptor.
    Title: 
    The Marsh, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1986.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: steel and epoxy, painted; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Overall: approx. 20 x 12 x 12 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On plaque on marker, in front of sculpture:) "THE MARSH"/By James Clover/1986/Financial support to make this sculpture a part of/Mercy-Memorial Medical Center was provided by:/EMPLOYEES OF MERCY-MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER, INC./ERNST & WHINNEY/GLOBENSKY, GLEISS, HENDERSON & BITTNER/HANSEN LIND MEYER/MICHIGAN COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS/STOUFFER ELECTRIC/TRIBROOK GROUP INC. unsigned
    Description: 
    Multi-colored sculpture is an abstract representation of birds flying over marshland. There are wave and foliage shapes at the bottom and tear-drop and oval shapes at the top as the ascending birds. Colors include yellow, pink, green, blue, black and white. The base of the sculpture is painted blue and the whole work stands on a low, rectangular base.
    Subject: 
    Landscape -- Marsh
    Animal -- Bird
    Object -- Foliage
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Michigan -- St. Joseph
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Lakeland Medical Center, 1234 Napier, St. Joseph, Michigan 49085
    Provenance: 
    Formerly Mercy-Memorial Medical Center, 1234 Napier, St. Joseph, Michigan 49085
    Remarks: 
    Commissioned by the Mercy-Memorial Medical Center for $15,000 as part of a physical consolidation construction project which resulted from the merger between Memorial Hospital of St. Joseph and Mercy Hospital of Benton Harbor. IAS files contain a call for proposals from the Hospital. In 1977, the sculpture was repainted by employees of the hospital, in consultation with the artist. For further reading see the Herald Palladium (Michigan), July 13, 1985.
    Conservation: 
    Treated 1998. Lakeland Medical Center grounds staff (St. Joseph, MI). Treatment report on file with the Krasl Art Center (St. Joseph, MI).
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Michigan survey, 1993.
    SOS Conservation Notification Report, 2000.
    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 MI000671
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