Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Unknown,
Religion -- Saint
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Scranton
Sculpture
St. Theresa, (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown, sculptor.
Title:
St. Theresa, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Saint Theresa, (sculpture).
Dates:
ca. 1947. Installed 1948.
Medium:
Sculpture: sandstone or marble; Base: concrete.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. H. 7 ft. x Diam. approx. 42 in.
Inscription:
(On front of base:) ERECTED BY/MR. & MRS. JOHN J. O'HEARN 1948 unsigned
Description:
Atop West Mountain stands a stone figure of St. Theresa with her hands cupped in front of her.
Subject:
Religion -- Saint -- St. Theresa
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Scranton
Sculpture
Owner:
Located Newton Road, atop West Mountain, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Remarks:
The sculpture is located in a remote area near Newton Road and past the West Mountain Stone Quarry. Visitors sometimes place coins in the figure's cupped hands.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.
Illustration:
Sunday Times (Scranton, PA), Aug. 13, 1967.
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 PA001846
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
PA001846
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact