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    		• Zorach, William,
     
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    		• Figure group -- Male
     
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    		• Homage -- Lenin, Vladimir llich
     
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    		• Object -- Tool
     
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    		• Object -- Tool
     
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    		• Obelisk
     
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    		• Model
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Proposed Lenin Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Zorach, William, 1889-1966, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Proposed Lenin Memorial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1934.
    Medium: 
    Plaster.
    Description: 
    An obelisk with a seated figure of Lenin of the top. At the bottom there are two rings that fit on top of each other like cogs. Each circle has alternating figures of workers on it. The workers are holding a jackhammer and an axe.
    Subject: 
    Figure group -- Male
    Homage -- Lenin, Vladimir llich
    Object -- Tool -- Axe
    Object -- Tool -- Hammer
    Object Type: 
    Obelisk
    Model
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Unlocated.
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located at Moscow, Russia
    Remarks: 
    This piece was submitted to Moscow in connection with an International competition for a monument to Lenin to be built on an island in the Leningrad Harbor. The model was shipped to Moscow, but never offically acknowledged.
    References: 
    Zorach, Tessim, Zorach Inventory WZ-35, 1991.
    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 74370063
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