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 Growing Together - Dayton, Ohio Posted by:  DougK
N 39° 46.456 W 084° 10.121
16S E 742492 N 4406538
Growing Together is a relief sculpture that memorializes three children who received care at the Children's Medical Center of Dayton.
Waymark Code: WMMH9R
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 09/21/2014
Views: 1
This sculpture is located at the front entrance to the Children's Medical Center of Dayton. The relief panels are about 4 feet his and 28 inches wide on each side. It sits in a garden setting on a circular brick base about 62 inches in diameter and 2 feet high.
From the Smithsonian AIC Description:
A triangular-shaped sculpture consisting of three bas-reliefs panels one on each face of the triangle. Each relief depicting a child at play. On one panel, the oldest boy, Lamont, carries a soccer ball under his proper left arm. He wears a baseball hat and his shoes are untied. On another panel, a little boy, Kyle, holds a balloon in his proper right hand. His teddy bear is at his proper left foot and he has a bandaid on his proper right knee. On another panel, a little girl, Chloe, wears a ruffled short-sleeved, short dress, ruffled socks and ribbons in her hair. A small doll dressed exactly like her rests at her proper left foot. Above her head is a kite. The sculpture is mounted upon a circular base.
From the Smithsonian AIC Remarks:
The artist's grandchildren served as models for the sculpture. According to the artist, title "Growing Together," is intended to represent the healing that takes place at Children's Medical Center. Each of the three bronze plaques standing in front of the sculpture reads: IN LOVING MEMORY OF (followed by a name on each, including: Nelson S. Mead, Joann Graf, and Dorothy S. Carr).
TITLE: Growing Together
ARTIST(S): sculptor: Virginia Krause Hess
DATE: Dedicated 1991
MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: brick and concrete
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS OH000451
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Children's Medical Center, Entrance
One Children's Plaza
Dayton, Ohio 45404
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
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