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Figure -- Child
Allegory -- Death
Allegory -- Civic
Outdoor Sculpture -- Nevada -- Mercury
Sculpture
Shadow Children, (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown, sculptor.
Title:
Shadow Children, (sculpture).
Medium:
Painted.
Dimensions:
Approx. 1.5 x 5.5 x 3.5 ft.
Inscription:
unsigned
Description:
Two children, one painted white and the other black, lie in a fetal position on the desert floor, encircled by stones.
Subject:
Figure -- Child -- Full length
Allegory -- Death
Allegory -- Civic -- War
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Nevada -- Mercury
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Nevada Desert Experience,
Located Across the freeway from the Mercury gate of the Nevada Test Site, Mercury, Nevada
Remarks:
The sculpture is located at a site where the Nevada Desert Experience has protested nuclear weapons research. Nearby is an arrangement of stones on the ground that reads: PEACE CAMP. IAS files contain an article from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, April 4, 1995, pg. D-1, D-2.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Nevada survey, 1995.
Illustration:
Las Vegas Review-Journal, April 4, 1995, pg. D-1.
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 NV000098
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Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
NV000098
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