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    		• de Tullio, Angelo,
     
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    		• Animal -- Lion
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Las Vegas
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Lion Park Fountain, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    de Tullio, Angelo, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Lion Park Fountain, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Lion Fountain, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1896.
    Medium: 
    Dakota sandstone.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 91 x 69 x 83 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Incised in lower front of fountain:) ERECTED/By The/W.C.T.U./Las Vegas, N.M./A.D. 1896 unsigned
    Description: 
    A figure of a reclining adult male lion atop a rectangular pedestal set in the middle of a fountain basin. The pedestal is decorated with bas-relief floral designs, and the base of the fountain is decorated with bas-relief images of swans as well as floral designs.
    Subject: 
    Animal -- Lion
    Animal -- Bird -- Swan
    Object Type: 
    Fountain
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Las Vegas
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Las Vegas, 1700 North Grand Avenue, P. O. Box 179, Las Vegas, New Mexico 87701
    Located Lion Park, Lincoln Street & Grand Avenue, Las Vegas, New Mexico
    Remarks: 
    Commissioned by the Women's Christian Temperance Union to provide a public drinking fountain as an alternative to the saloons of Las Vegas. The sculptor was a local stonemason, Angelo de Tullio.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Mexico survey, 1994.
    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 NM000118
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