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    		• Moretti, Giuseppe,
     
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    		• Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company,
     
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    		• Architecture -- Detail
     
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    		• Figure group -- Female
     
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    		• Children
     
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    		• Animal -- Bird
     
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    		• Gate
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
     
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    Welcome, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Moretti, Giuseppe, 1857-1935, sculptor.
    Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, founder.
    Title: 
    Welcome, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Highland Park Gateway, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Installed December 1896.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Sculptures: bronze; Bases: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    2 gate posts. Overall approx. 50 x 25 x 20 ft.
    Inscription: 
    CAST BY THE HENRY BONNARD BRONZE CO. N.Y. (Base of left eagle:) G.MORETTI/Sculpio signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    Columns which flank the entrance to the park are each topped by bronze figure groups consisting of a loosely draped female figure gesturing a welcome with foliage held up in one hand. She is flanked by two small children. At the base of each column is a bronze female figure holding up a torch in one hand. Stretching out from each column is an ornamental balustrade on the end of which is an eagle.
    Subject: 
    Architecture -- Detail -- Column
    Figure group -- Female
    Children
    Animal -- Bird -- Eagle
    Object Type: 
    Gate
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Pittsburgh, Citiparks, Department of Public Works, 611 Second Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222
    Located Highland Park, Main entrance on Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Remarks: 
    Cost forty-five thousand dollars. IAS files contain related article from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 29, 1995, pg. C3 which details the Highland Park Community Clubs efforts to raise fund for the scheduled renovation of the sculptures in early 1996.
    References: 
    Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, pg. 277.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, PA0219, 1989.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, pgs. 302-304.
    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 64480143
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