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    		• Lenning, Alice Campbell,
     
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    		• Portrait female -- Emma, Queen
     
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    		• Occupation -- Other
     
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    		• Dress -- Accessory
     
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    		• Homage -- Dillingham, Emma Louise
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Hawaii -- Honolulu
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Queen Emma, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Lenning, Alice Campbell, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Queen Emma, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1949. Dedicated July 7, 1950.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: terra cotta; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 18 x 14 x 12 in.; Base: approx. 62 1/2 x 24 x 18 3/4 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On lower back of sculpture:) A. Campbell 1949 (On front of base:) QUEEN EMMA/1836-1885 signed
    Description: 
    Bust of Queen Emma with her hair drawn up from her face and neck,and pinned or netted in a mass. She wears a tiara of leaf, vein-like incised lines with flattened round shapes along the horizontal central stem in her hair. A pendulum-shaped earring appears on her proper right ear. The left earring has broken off.
    Subject: 
    Portrait female -- Emma, Queen -- Bust
    Occupation -- Other -- Aristocrat
    Dress -- Accessory -- Jewelry
    Homage -- Dillingham, Emma Louise
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Hawaii -- Honolulu
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City and County of Honolulu, Mayor's Office of Culture and the Arts, 530 South King Street, Room 404, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
    Located Queen Emma Square, Intersection of Queen Emma Street and Kukui Street, Honolulu, Hawaii
    Remarks: 
    The bust of Queen Emma, who was instrumental in bringing the Episcopal church to Hawaii and founding Queen's Hospital, was presented to Emma Square Park as a gift from Mrs. Walter F. Dillingham. Mrs. Myron A. Wick dedicated the bust in honor of her grandmother, Emma Louise Dillingham, who was the first regent of the Daughters of Hawaii. IAS files contain pages from the following book; Rappolt, Miriam E., "Queen Emma: a woman of vision," Press Pacifica, 1991, pg. 164-173.; and an article from the Honolulu Advertiser July 7, 1950.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Hawaii survey, 1993.
    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 HI000014
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