Brooklyn Public Library: Screen, (sculpture)

Object Details

Tampa Museum of Art, 1980.; Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York, New York survey, 1993.; Image on file.; Howarth, Shirley Reiff, "C. Paul Jennewein: Sculptor," Florida: Tampa Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 122-3.; The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Summary: Above the entrance are fifteen bronze panels arranged in three vertical rows to create a decorative screen depicting characters and authors from American fiction. From top to bottom: (left side) Hester Prynne, Babe the Blue Ox, Rip Van Winkle, Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer; (center) Don Marquis, Hiawatha, Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, Walt Whitman, Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; (right side) Louisa May Alcott's Meg, Jack London's White Fang, James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo, Edgar Allan Poe's Raven, and the narrator of "Two Years before the Mast," Charles Dana.

1938-39

Owner/Location: Brooklyn Public Library Grand Army Plaza Entrance Brooklyn New York 11238

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Topic: Portrait male; Occupation--Writer--Poet; Literature--Character--Hester Prynne; Literature--Hawthorne--Scarlet Letter; Literature--Character--Babe the Blue Ox; Literature--Character--Hiawatha; Literature--Longfellow--Song of Hiawatha; Literature--Character--Tom Sawyer; Literature--Twain--Huckleberry Finn; Literature--Character--Rip Van Winkle; Literature--Irving--Rip Van Winkle; Literature--Character--Moby Dick; Literature--Melville--Moby Dick; Literature--Character--Don Marquis; Literature--Character--Brer Rabbit; Literature--Character--Tar Baby; Literature--Harris--Uncle Remus; Literature--Character--Wynken; Literature--Character--Blynken; Literature--Character--Nod; Literature--Field--Wynken, Blynken and Nod; Literature--Character--Meg; Literature--Alcott--Little Women; Literature--Character--White Fang; Literature--London--Call of the Wild; Literature--Character--Natty Bumppo; Literature--Cooper; Literature--Character--Raven; Literature--Poe--Raven; Literature--Dana--Two Years before the Mast