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The Boar, (sculpture). Artist:  Benelli, Giuseppe, 1819-1861, sculptor. Tacca, Pietro, 1577-1640, sculptor. (copy after) Fuse Marinelli, founder. Title:  The Boar, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Little Pig, (sculpture). Wild Boar, (sculpture). Il Porcellino, (sculpture). Dates:  Modeled 1634. Cast 1957. Relocated 2009. Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: limestone. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 53 x 64 x 72 in. Inscription:  unsigned Description:  A larger than life-size bronze boar sitting on a forest floor, surrounded by turtles, snails, frogs, and bugs. Subject:  Animal -- Pig Object Type:  Copy Outdoor Sculpture -- Kansas -- Prairie Village Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Highwoods Property, 310 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri 64111 Located Prairie Village Shopping Center, Prairie Village, Kansas 66208 Provenance:  Formerly located Mid Continent International Airport, Kansas City, Missouri 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. This cast was formerly located inside the Mid Continent International Airport in Kansas City, Missouri before it was moved to an outdoor site at the Prairie Village Shopping Center. 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:  Kansas City Adopt A Monument, 2009. 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 74870084   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 74870084 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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