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    		• Figure male -- Child
     
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    		• Homage -- Sopris, Richard, Mrs. (Elizabeth Lloyd Allen)
     
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    		• Sundial
     
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    		• Bench
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Colorado -- Denver
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Elizabeth Allen Sopris Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Elizabeth Allen Sopris Memorial, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Fiddler's Sundial, (sculpture).
    Sopris Fountain, (sculpture).
    Sopris Memorial, (sculpture).
    Sopris Sundial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Installed 1925.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Figure and sundial: bronze; Pedestals and bench: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Figure and sundial: approx. 36 x 20 x 20 in.; Pedestals and bench: approx. 44 x 179 x 60 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On bronze plaque on pedestal:) A GIFT TO DENVER/BY/S. T. SOPRIS/IN MEMORY OF/ELIZABETH ALLEN SOPRIS/A PIONEER OF 1860/ERECTED A.D. 1925
    Description: 
    Bronze figure of a child, standing over a sundial. The figure's body is slightly bent forward at the waist. His arms are stretched forward at a 30 degree angle from his body. He is looking down towards his hands, which may have held something that is now missing. Both the figure and the sundial are set on a bronze plinth, which in turn rests on a granite pedestal. The granite pedestal is at the center of a long granite bench. The bench terminates at each end with a pedestal. The two end pedestals each have a bronze bracket on top; these brackets once held bronze drinking fountains which are now missing. The memorial originally included a pool as well, but the pool has been filled in.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Child -- Full length
    Homage -- Sopris, Richard, Mrs. (Elizabeth Lloyd Allen)
    Object Type: 
    Sundial
    Bench
    Fountain
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Colorado -- Denver
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City and County of Denver, Department of Parks & Recreation, 2300 15th Street, Suite 150, Denver, Colorado 80202
    Located City Park, West of pavilion, in rose garden, Denver, Colorado
    Provenance: 
    Formerly administered by City and County of Denver, Commission on Cultural Affairs, Ste. 1600, 1st Western Plaza, 303 W. Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80204
    Remarks: 
    Donated by Simpson T. Sopris, son of Elizabeth Allen Sopris. This memorial originally consisted of the bronze figure and sundial on a granite pedestal in the center of a granite bench; two bronze drinking fountains, each mounted on a granite pedestal, one on either end of the granite bench; and a pool. Currently, the drinking fountains are missing, and the pool has been filled in. Inside forearm of figure's proper left arm has been repaired. Repair work has also been done where figure attaches to bronze plinth.
    IAS files contain copy of newspaper photograph and caption from Rocky Mountain News, April 23, 1965; copy of obituary for Simpson T. Sopris from Denver Post, Aug. 10, 1928; and copy of obituary for Elizabeth Allen Sopris.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Colorado, Denver survey, 1993.
    City and County of Denver, 1987.
    City and County of Denver, Mayor's Office of Art, Culture and Film, 1996.
    Public Monument Conservation Project, 1986.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Rocky Mountain News, April 23, 1965, pg. 28.
    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 CO000017
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