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(USC Medical Center Figures), (sculpture). Artist:  Scarpitta, G. Salvatore Cartaino, 1887-1948, sculptor. Title:  (USC Medical Center Figures), (sculpture). Other Titles:  (University of Southern California Medical Center Figures), (sculpture). Dates:  1933-1934. Digital Reference:  Dimensions:  Life-size. Inscription:  (Below appropriate figures:) PASTEUR VESALINS HARVEY/HIPPOCRATES GALEN JOHN HUNTER (On middle panel:) S. CARIANO SCARPITTA signed Description:  Installed over the entrance are twelve life-size figures representing medical science innovators and allegorical figures representing individuals aided by their research. Figures are placed in four groups of three. One group represents Hippocrates, Galen, and John Hunter. Another group represents Louis Pasteur, Andreas Vesalius, and William Harvey. And, between these two groups is an angel flanked by an elderly male figure and a female figure holding a child. Subject:  Figure group Portrait male -- Galen -- Full length Portrait male -- Harvey, William -- Full length Portrait male -- Hippocrates -- Full length Portrait male -- Hunter, John -- Full length Portrait male -- Pastuer, Louis -- Full length Portrait male -- Vesalius, Andreas -- Full length Occupation -- Medicine Object Type:  Architectural component Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Los Angeles Sculpture Owner:  Administered by County of Los Angeles, Internal Services Department, Los Angeles, California Administered by University of Southern California at Los Angeles, 1200 North State Street, Los Angeles, California 90033 Located Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center General Hospital, 1200 North State Street, Over main entrance, Los Angeles, California 90033 References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995. Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Civic Art Program, 2015. 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 CA000247   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CA000247 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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