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School Activities, (sculpture). Artist:  Mako, Bartolomeo J., 1890-1970, sculptor. Title:  School Activities, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Pageant of Education, (sculpture). Dates:  1938. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Concrete (?). Inscription:  (Above relief:) LOU HENRY HOOVER SCHOOL Description:  Bas-relief concave panel above the entrance to a school. The panel depicts three scenes. On the left, a group of people are engaged in sports activities. A man holds a tennis racket, two children play on a teeter-totter and three young children play with a toy sailboat. A tree with several sheep standing in front separates the scene from the next. In the center scene, three children are gathered around a woman who is reading from a book. A man stands behind her. To the right, a woman is seated and holds an infant on her lap. Two young boys stand next to her; the boy on the right holds a rabbit. A tree with a globe showing the Western Hemisphere separates the center scene from the scene on the right. On the right is a group of six children and adults. Two young men are seated; the other four, including a young woman, are standing. The young woman has a dog on a lead and a stringed instrument tucked under her proper left arm. The background of the panel is dark while the relief figures are light, creating a two-tone effect. Subject:  Figure group Children Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Education Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Tennis Object -- Toy -- Sports Equipment Object -- Toy -- Boat Animal -- Sheep Animal -- Rabbit Recreation -- Leisure -- Reading Object -- Musical Instrument Animal -- Dog Object -- Other -- Globe Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Whittier Relief Architectural component Sculpture Owner:  Lou Henry Hoover School, Camilla Street at Alta Avenue, Whittier, California 90601 Remarks:  IAS files contain copy of related excerpt from David Gebhard and Harriette Von Breton "Los Angeles in the Thirties, 1931-1941," Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., Los Angeles, 1989, pg. 289. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995. 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 CA001385   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CA001385 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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