Pioneer Memorial - Tucson, Arizona - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

From Smithsonian inventory:

"The memorial consists of a semicircular exedra seat topped with a freestanding amphora and adorned with a relief of a reclining man and woman engraved on the curving back of the exedra seat. The relief is a Classical Revival style relief depicting a woman and a man. The woman is asleep with her head back and resting on her proper left shoulder. Her proper right arm is raised and rests on the side of her head. Her long, straight hair hangs over her proper right arm and down her back. She is partially covered with drapery that leaves her proper right shoulder bare. At her feet is a sleeping child. The woman represents night, or the period when Tucson and the surrounding area was undeveloped. The awakening of the area is represented by a man reclining to her proper left holding a torch in his proper right hand. He is draped from the waist down and a child at his feet raises his drapery as though looking out upon a new day. Nearby two small children offer the fruits of the land.

The exedra seat rises on the west side of a circular marble faced platform base. Two large planters at the end of the exedra are made of yellow marble with inserts of dark green marble. A tall, free-standing amphora made of onyx marble with a green cap and base stands left of center on top of the exedra seat back above the relief. The exedra relief is made of pink Tennessee marble. The top the exedra seat is green verde antique marble with a rope-like border of travertine at the back. The riser supporting the seat is onyx marble. The cap on the seat and the buttresses and back of the exedra are travertine marble. The exedra seat rises on the west side of a circular marble faced platform base consisting of two steps. The larger bottom step extends behind the exedra and around the sides in an area designed for planting. Concentric circles of pink, green and travertine marble on the top step lead inward toward the foot of exedra seat."

In front of seat is a circular inscription:

To The Memory Of Those Pioneers Of Arizona Who Have Given Their Lives
That We Might Live In Peace And Unafraid In This Sunkissed Borderland

TITLE: Pioneer Memorial ARTIST(S): Beniamino Bufano DATE: 1920 MEDIUM: Sculpture: green verde antique marble, light onyx marble, blue onyx marble, travertine marble, and Tennessee pink marble; Base: green verde antique marble, travertine marble, Tennessee pink marble, and bronze. CONTROL NUMBER: IAS AZ000575 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Tucson Children's Museum 200 South 6th Avenue In front Tucson, Arizona DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: The inventory listed sculpture as being in front of the Public Library, the building is now he Tucson Children's Museum

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