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,
Portrait male -- Greene, John Priest,
Occupation -- Education
Occupation -- Religion
Fountain
Stele
Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Liberty
Sculpture
John Priest Greene Fountain, (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown, sculptor.
Title:
John Priest Greene Fountain, (sculpture).
Dates:
1938.
Medium:
Pink marble.
Dimensions:
Stele: approx. 6 ft. 6 1/2 in. x 2 ft. 3 in. x 8 1/2 in.; Base: approx. 10 in. x 18 in. x 3 ft.
Inscription:
(On face of stele:) SACRED TO/THE MEMORY OF/DR. JOHN PRIEST/GREENE/BORN: AUG. 20, 1849/DIED: MARCH 10, 1933/PRESIDENT OF/WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE/1892-1920 (incised drawing of Jewell Hall) 1921-1923/STALWART CHRISTIAN,/OUTSTANDING PREACHER,/PRACTICAL EDUCATOR,/LOYAL FRIEND/"HE WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD"/ACTS 10:38/ERECTED AS A TENDER TRIBUTE/OF LOVE AND MEMORY BY HIS BOYS/OF THE CLASS OF 1913 AT THEIR/REUNION IN 1938. unsigned
Description:
Commemorative stele on the rim of a small circular fountain in a concrete patio that has two stone benches. The stele faces the fountain and has carved scrolls on the top two sides and a bust portrait of John Priest Greene in the center. Below the portrait is an inscription. The sitter is in three quarter view profile; head turned proper left; he has sideburns and wears coat and tie.
Subject:
Portrait male -- Greene, John Priest, -- Bust
Occupation -- Education -- Teacher
Occupation -- Religion -- Clergy
Object Type:
Fountain
Stele
Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Liberty
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by William Jewell College, Director of Public Relations, 500 College Hill, Liberty, Missouri 64068
Located William Jewell College, Yates College Union, Liberty, Missouri 64068
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Missouri, Kansas City survey, 1994.
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 MO000075
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
MO000075
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
Login
Help
