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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Arkansas -- Hope
     
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    (Facade carvings), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    McAninch & Anderson, architectural firm.
    Title: 
    (Facade carvings), (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1939.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 25 x 29 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On lowest left panel:) 1939 unsigned
    Description: 
    Series of relief panels surrounding the entry to the Courthouse. These panels depict a shirtless man in long pants pushing a cart on rails; a seated male figure wearing farm work clothes amid tufts of wheat; a robed classical male figure holding a lantern in his outstretched proper left hand; a robed classical figure with his proper right arm resting atop a shield and his proper left arm outstretched towards a number of canisters; a classical figure with proper left hand resting atop a staff and proper right arm outstretched toward a nude figure; a female figure with classical era clothing holding the proper left hand of a nude male figure with her proper left hand while her proper right hand rests on his proper right shoulder; two male figures, naked from the waist up and pouring a liquid from a crucible into what appears to be a mold; and the panel at the lower left corner features two male workers with hats carrying an object on their proper right shoulders. Above the center of the doorway is an eagle with outstretched wings.
    Subject: 
    Figure group
    Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Agriculture
    Allegory -- Quality -- Justice
    Animal -- Bird -- Eagle
    Occupation -- Industry
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Arkansas -- Hope
    Relief
    Architectural component
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Hempstead County, County Judge, 400 South Washington Street, Hope, Arkansas 71801
    Located Hempstead County Courthouse, 400 South Washington Street, East facade, Hope, Arkansas
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arkansas 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 AR000151
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