Yearning to Know - Fort Worth, Texas
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N 32° 42.653 W 097° 21.904
14S E 653233 N 3620417
The sculpture was commissioned by longtime TCU trustee and Fort Worth business leader M. J. Neeley. Neeley was the grandfather of Russ Nettles, whose learning disability prompted the founding of Starpoint School in 1966. The sculpture is based on a photograph of Mrs. Neeley's mother and the two Neeley daughters.
Waymark Code: WM7G5X
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/22/2009
Views: 2
Figure of woman seated in armchair reading to two children. As she sits looking down at a book, legs crossed at her ankles, a small female child stands on her proper left holding a teddy bear, while another older female child sits with legs straddled across the chair's arms on the woman's right.
Inscription: (On right rear of sculpture:) RANDOLPH JOHNSTON (Top plaque on front of base:) YEARNING TO KNOW (Bottom plaque on front of base:) IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ALICE SNEED NEELEY/WHOSE GENEROUS SPIRIT AND LOVE OF CHILDREN/MADE POSSIBLE THIS FACULTY AND PROGRAM/STARPOINT SCHOOL/OCTOBER 28, 1990
TITLE: Yearning to Know
ARTIST(S): Johnston, Randolph Wardell sculptor. Bronzart Foundry, founder.
DATE: 1990
MEDIUM: Sculpture: metal; Base: black granite.
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS TX000136
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
2829 Stadium Drive
Fort Worth, Texas
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
None - Still in need of treatment.
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