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Figures: Nature, Art, Energy, Law, Science, Imagination, (sculpture). Artist:  Calder, Alexander Stirling, 1870-1945, sculptor. Title:  Figures: Nature, Art, Energy, Law, Science, Imagination, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Throop Polytechnic Institute Spandrel Figures, (sculpture). Dates:  Modeled 1907-1908. Installed 1909. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Cast concrete. Description:  Six allegorical figures, one in each spandrel over three arched window panels. On the far left arch, Nature is represented by Pan, and on the opposite side of the arch, Art is represented by a female figure holding a drawing board. On the middle arch, Energy is represented by a male figure carrying another figure over his shoulders, and on the opposite side of the arch, Science is represented by a male figure with the planet Saturn at his elbow. On the far right arch, Imagination is represented by a winged male figure, and on the opposite side of the arch, Law is represented by a male figure wearing a helmet and carrying law books. Subject:  Figure group Allegory -- Other -- Nature Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Art Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Science Allegory -- Other -- Imagination Allegory -- Civic -- Law Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Pasadena Sculpture Owner:  California Institute of Technology, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis, Pasadena, California Remarks:  Architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey commissioned the spandrel figures for the entrance portals on the admissions building at Throop Polytechnic Institute, which later changed its name to California Institute of Technology. However, after the 1971 California earthquake, the admissions building had to be torn down, and the spandrel sculptures were removed and placed in storage. Later the spandrel sculptures were relocated to the arches over the windows on the front of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis at California Institute of Technology. References:  Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall, "Painting and Sculpture in Los Angeles 1900-1945," Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Sept 25-Nov. 23, 1980), pg. 37-38. Scheid, Ann, "Pasadena Crown of the Valley: An Illusrated History," pg. 120. Illustration:  Image on file. Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall, "Painting and Sculpture in Los Angeles 1900-1945," Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Sept 25-Nov. 23, 1980), pg. 37. 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 76005581   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 76005581 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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