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Prometheus sculpture in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Nína Sæmundsson: Prometheus [aka Prometheus Bringing Fire to Earth]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Nína Sæmundsson  (1892–1965)  wikidata:Q16423259
 
Nína Sæmundsson
Alternative names
Nina Saemundsson; Jónína Sæmundsdóttir; Jonina Saemundsdottir
Description Icelandic painter, sculptor and educator
Date of birth/death 22 August 1892 Edit this at Wikidata 29 January 1965 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Fljótshlíð Reykjavík
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q16423259
Title
Prometheus [aka Prometheus Bringing Fire to Earth]
Description
sculpture of mythological figure in public park photographed circa 1937, showing original configuration with man holding a globe (missing since the 1940s) in his outstretched left hand
Date 1935
date QS:P571,+1935-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium bronze
Current location
MacArthur Park (formerly Westlake Park), Los Angeles, California, USA
Inscriptions P.W.A.P. / PROMETHUS [sic] / by Nina Saemundsson / dedicated April 9, 1935 (plaque on base of pedestal)
Notes The original sculpture was cast stone, painted with a dark metallic bronze colour[1]; the statue was slated for removal and destruction due to deteriorating condition, when a 'public outcry' resulted in it being recast in bronze[2]; the actual, current material of the sculpture remains unclear, as some contemporary sources claim it is an "8-foot black cement sculpture on 4-foot concrete pedestal"[3]
Source/Photographer Los Angeles Daily News Negatives (Collection 1387). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00288r8r
Camera location34° 03′ 28.7″ N, 118° 16′ 34.05″ W  Heading=300° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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  1. ↑ "Prometheus, Bringing Fire to the Earth" - Los Angeles, CA. Retrieved on 2019-06-08.
  2. ↑ "Image / Statue of Prometheus in Westlake Park (MacArthur Park), Los Angeles". Retrieved on 2019-06-08.
  3. ↑ [http://www.publicartinpublicplaces.info/prometheus-bringing-fire-to-earth-1935-by-nina-saemundsson "Prometheus Bringing Fire to Earth" (1935) by Nina Saemundsson]. Retrieved on 2019-06-08.

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