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    (Facade Relief Carvings Saenger Theater), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    (Facade Relief Carvings Saenger Theater), (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated Nov. 17, 1924.
    Medium: 
    Tondos: marble; Gargoyle: cast concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    2 tondos and 1 gargoyle. Each tondo: approx. D. 4 in. x Diam. 30 in.; Gargoyle: approx. 36 x 68 x 5 in.
    Inscription: 
    signed
    Description: 
    Two tondos and a gargoyle's head on the facade of a building. The tondos are situated at the far sides of the facade and the gargoyle head rests at the center. Each tondo contains a portrait of a classical head. The tondo on the left side of the facade contains the relief portrait of a bearded figure. The tondo on the right side contains the relief portrait of a clean-shaven figure. The two relief portraits face each other and each tondo sits above a window and between two flattened columns topped by relief Corinthian capitals. In the center of the facade, above a decorated arched pediment, is the head of the gargoyle. The gargoyle wears a crown and has garlands of fruit draped at each side of its head. The head sits above a decorative curved tympanum and below a window.
    Subject: 
    Figure -- Head
    Architecture -- Detail -- Gargoyle
    Dress -- Accessory -- Hat
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Arkansas -- Pine Bluff
    Architectural component
    Medallion
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Hackatoo Foundation, 106 Rutherford, Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71601
    Located Saenger Theater, 124 West 2nd Street, Main entrance facade, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
    Remarks: 
    The building was originally donated to the city of Pine Bluff when it was built by the Saenger Corporation of New Orleans. It was subsequently passed to private hands and in the 1970s was given to the Heckatoo Foundation, a historic preservation entity. For related articles see: the Pine Bluff Daily Graphic (Pine Bluff, AR), Nov. 15, 1924, pg. 1, and Nov. 18, 1924, pg. 1, 5; and the Pine Bluff Commercial (Pine Bluff, AR), Section 2, pg. 1.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arkansas 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 AR000103
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