Bears - Berkeley, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 52.442 W 122° 15.523
10S E 565194 N 4192097
A duo of Bears on the campus of UC Berkeley. The two bears lay next to each other.
Waymark Code: WM7P52
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/16/2009
Views: 3
From the inventory: "Two bronze bears. Each is the mirror image of the other. They lay on their sides, reclining. Their heads are raised, each looking off to the side. The bears recline on concrete bases which are positioned next to each other.
The bears were originally commissioned by the Rossia Insurance Company of Petrograd, Russia and were located at the entrance to the company's American headquarters in Hartford, CT. When the headquarters building was scheduled for demolition, the bears were obtained by A. John Macchi, president of Macchi Engineers in Hartford, and a graduate of the university. They were donated to the university by Macchi in 1987. The bears were sculpted using the "repousse" technique and are hollow."
TITLE: Bears
ARTIST(S): Beckum, Edmund Schulte, sculptor.
DATE: ca. 1915. Dedicated Nov. 20, 1987.
MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete.
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS CA001250
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Located University of California, Berkeley, Bechtal Plaza, Bechtal Engineering Building, Berkeley, California 94720
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
The sculpture was recast in 2001.
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