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    		• Morahan, Eugene,
     
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    		• Animal -- Horse
     
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    		• Homage -- Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne
     
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    		• Object -- Other
     
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    		• Animal -- Porpoise
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Rhode Island -- Newport
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Alfred G. Vanderbilt Memorial Fountain, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Morahan, Eugene, 1869-1949, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Alfred G. Vanderbilt Memorial Fountain, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1917. Dedicated July 11, 1917.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Basin: red Westerly granite, painted.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 39 in. x Diam. 30 in.; Base: approx. H. 6 ft. x Diam 78 in.
    Inscription: 
    EUGENE MORAHAN/1917 (symbol consisting of an "o" inside a larger "o":) (Inscribed on shaft:) To the Memory of/Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt/Who Perished/On the SS Lusitania In the/Thirty Eighth Year of His Age/May 7, 1915/Erected by Fifty of His Friends signed
    Description: 
    Two rearing horses atop a round ornamental shaft which stands in a round basin. The ornamentation, also around the basin, consists of shells and porpoises, which are Vanderbilt symbols.
    Subject: 
    Animal -- Horse
    Homage -- Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne
    Object -- Other -- Shell
    Animal -- Porpoise
    Object Type: 
    Fountain
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Rhode Island -- Newport
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Located Corner of Broadway & Calvert Street, Newport, Rhode Island
    Remarks: 
    Erected in memory of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt by fifty of his friends in England and the United States. Designed as drinking fountains for people and horses, adjustments were made to the surrounding area, including a footpath and a widening of the curb, to accommodate drinkers. This is no longer a working fountain. IAS files include a related article from the Newport Daily News July 7, 1917 which has a picture of the fountain before the loss of the horse driver and other parts.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Rhode Island 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 RI000103
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