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 (Italian),
Religion -- New Testament
Outdoor Sculpture -- Indiana -- Whiting
Sculpture
Virgin Mary, (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown (Italian), sculptor.
Title:
Virgin Mary, (sculpture).
Dates:
Dedicated May 1955.
Medium:
Figure: stone; Base: mortared limestone and greenish black travertine.
Dimensions:
Figure: approx. 65 x 18 x 13 in.
Inscription:
(On front of base:) STATUE DONATED BY/MRS. SOPHIE GUZEK/BASE DONATED BY/MR. AND MRS. STANLEY AND LOTTIE BUDZIK unsigned
Description:
A figure of the Virgin Mary dressed in a robe and veil. The robe is decorated with a bow at waist level and a flowered panel down the side of the garment. The Virgin Mary is barefoot and folds her hands together in a gesture of prayer at chest level. The figure is placed atop a base that is flanked on both sides by attached planters.
Subject:
Religion -- New Testament -- Mary
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Indiana -- Whiting
Sculpture
Owner:
St. Adalbert Church, 1340 121st Street, Whiting, Indiana 46394
Remarks:
The figure of Mary was donated by Mrs. Sophie Guzek. The base was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley and Lottie Budzik. IAS files contain detailed dimensions for base structure.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Indiana 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 IN000351
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
IN000351
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