Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Zamora, Mario,     Portrait male -- Pasteur, Louis     Figure -- Fragment     Occupation -- Science     Occupation -- Science     Ethnic -- French     Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- San Bruno     Sculpture

Louis Pasteur, (sculpture). Artist:  Zamora, Mario, 1920- , sculptor. Title:  Louis Pasteur, (sculpture). Dates:  1977. Dedicated Dec. 1977. Medium:  Sculpture: cast bronze with patina; Base: concrete. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 2 x 1 x 1 ft. x Diam. 1 ft.; Base: approx. 6 x 4 x 4 ft. Inscription:  (On front bottom of figure's wrist:) M. ZAMORA 77 (On plaque at lower front of base, raised letters:) LOUIS PASTEUR/1822-1895/STUDENTS:/SAY TO YOURSELVES FIRST: WHAT HAVE I DONE FOR MY/INSTRUCTION? AND, AS YOU GRADUALLY ADVANCE, WHAT HAVE/I DONE FOR MY COUNTRY? UNTIL THE TIME COMES WHEN YOU/MAY HAVE THE IMMENSE HAPPINESS OF THINKING THAT YOU/HAVE CONTRIBUTED IN SOME WAY TO THE PROGRESS AND TO/THE GOOD OF HUMANITY. BUT, WHETHER OUR EFFORTS ARE/OR NOT FAVORED BY LIFE, LET US BE ABLE TO SAY, WHEN/WE COME NEAR THE GREAT GOAL, I HAVE DONE WHAT I COULD./PRESENTED BY:/ATILIO E. ZAMORA A./HIS SONS/ROBERTO AND RODOLFO/SCULPTOR/MARIO R. ZAMORA A./1977 signed Description:  A sculpture of Louis Pasteur's head, with his proper left hand stroking his beard. The sculpture is placed atop a tall pedestal. Subject:  Portrait male -- Pasteur, Louis -- Head Figure -- Fragment -- Hand Occupation -- Science -- Chemist Occupation -- Science -- Biologist Ethnic -- French Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- San Bruno Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Skyline College, 3330 College Drive, San Bruno, California 94096 Located Skyline College, In front of Building 2, San Bruno, California Remarks:  Commissioned and donated by Atilo E. Zamora, brother of the sculptor, and a former student at the college. IAS files contain a related article from Skyline Press, Nov. 2, 1977, the college's paper. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, California, San Francisco 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 CA000910   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CA000910 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact