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    		• Benelli, Giuseppe,
     
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    		• Bowen, Jac T.,
     
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    		• Fuse Marinelli,
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Kansas City
     
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    Bronze Boar Fountain, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Benelli, Giuseppe, 1819-1861, sculptor.
    Bowen, Jac T., 1917-1980, sculptor.
    Tacca, Pietro, 1577-1640, sculptor. (copy after)
    Fuse Marinelli, founder.
    Title: 
    Bronze Boar Fountain, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Little Pig, (sculpture).
    Wild Boar, (sculpture).
    Il Porcellino, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Modeled 1634. Cast 1957. Dedicated April 28, 1962.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: limestone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 53 x 64 x 72 in.; Base: approx. 20 x 76 x 88 in.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    A larger than life-size bronze boar sitting on a forest floor, surrounded by turtles, snails, frogs, and bugs. The boar sits on an acrylic panel that contains slots for dropping coins into the basin. The entire sculpture sits on a limestone pedestal.
    Subject: 
    Animal -- Pig
    Object Type: 
    Fountain
    Copy
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- Kansas City
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Highwoods Property, 310 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri 64111
    Located The Plaza, 47th Street & Wornall Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
    Remarks: 
    The original Wild Boar was reportedly done in marble by a Greek or Roman artist. A plaster mold was made by Renaissance sculptor Pietro Tacca. In 1857, Benelli, working in Florence from Tacca's old repaired plaster mold, cast a bronze boar. Several reproductions of the 1857 cast have been made. The Kansas City replica was cast by Ferdinando Marinelli. Jac Bowen designed and created the setting. IAS files contain transcription of text on nearby plaque and excerpt from Virginia W. Johnson's "Florence, the Lily of the Arno," Dana Estes & Co., Pub., Boston, 1891.
    In 2004, Kansas City Adopt A Monument reported that all sculptures owned by the J. C. Nichols company should be changed to Highwoods Property.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Missouri, Kansas City survey, 1994.
    "Walking Art Tour," Kansas City, MO: Plaza Merchants Association, n.d. (brochure).
    Kansas City Adopt A Monument, 2004.
    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 71500247
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