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To Serve and Protect, (sculpture). Artist:  Townsend, Storm, 1937- , sculptor. Santa Fe Bronze, founder. Title:  To Serve and Protect, (sculpture). Dates:  1983. Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 7 x 3 x 3 ft.; Base: approx. H. 4 ft. x Diam. 3 ft. Inscription:  Santa Fe Bronze Foundry (On bronze base of sculpture:) To Serve and Protect (On plaque, on concrete base:) "TO SERVE and PROTECT"/BY/STORM D. TOWNSEND ALB., N.M./COMMISSIONED BY THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE/1% FOR ART PROGRAMME 1983 unsigned Founder's mark appears. Description:  Bronze sculpture of a policeman kneeling beside a small girl. She leans against his proper left knee and proper left arm. Her face is tilted up, looking at the policeman. She wears a dress and sandals. The policeman is in uniform, jacket open, nightstick at proper left side. He wears a helmet and holds a walkie-talkie in his proper right hand, resting it on his proper right knee. His face is turned down, looking at the girl. The sculpture sits on a round concrete pedestal. Subject:  Occupation -- Service -- Policeman Dress -- Uniform -- Police Uniform Figure group -- Male & Child Dress -- Accessory -- Helmet Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Albuquerque, Public Art Program, P. O. Box 1293, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103 Located Osuna Police Substation, 8201 Osuna Road, N.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico Remarks:  Sculpture funded by the city of Albuquerque's Percent for Arts program. Cost of the sculpture was $25,000. IAS files contain copies of material related to the commissioning and installation of the sculpture. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Mexico survey, 1993. 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 NM000446   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NM000446 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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