Olympic Runner - St Louis, MO - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Other Titles: Kiener Memorial Fountain and Runner Statue

Description: Figure of a nude male runner set in a pool. His proper left leg is propped up on a wavelike form. He wears a beaded necklace and has a cloth draped around his hips.

Remarks: Bequest of Harry J. Kiener (1881-1960), a St. Louis native, steel company executive, and lifelong athlete who had been an Olympic high-hurdler in the 1904 Olympics held in St. Louis. Kiener's bequest of $200,000 paid for the entire area where the figure and fountain are located. Eugene J. Mackey, Jr. designed the fountain. IAS files contain copies from an unpublished 1969 mayor's report, "Public Art - St. Louis;" and George McCue's "Sculpture City: St. Louis," New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1988, pg. 118, 120.

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TITLE: Olympic Runner ARTIST(S): Zorach, William DATE: 1965 MEDIUM: bronze, granite CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 87810022 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Kiener Plaza, Broadway & Market Streets, St. Louis, Missouri DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: none noted...

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