Fountain Group - Restored

Fountain Group - Restored

Name: Fountain Group (Restored)
Artist: Harrison Gibbs
Material: Bronze
Format: Statue Group
Size: 167.6 cm h x 142.2 w x 122 cm d
Museum: Peoria Riverfront Museum
Inventory number: 2013.31
Information: Gift of Ramona Gibbs in memory of her parents, T. Harrison and Maurine Montgomery Gibbs, with the support of Dr. William H. and Nancy Marshall. Gibbs, son of an artist and author, received classical training in Philadelphia and Rome. He created the plaster model as a Prix de Rome Fellow but died on a battlefield in France before it could be cast. His daughter had it conserved by Norton Art Conservation and cast by True Form Productions for installation at the museum on May 5, 2013.
Related information: Dedication ceremony; museum record
By permission of the Peoria Riverfront Museum, IL
Photographer/Modeler: Carter Conaway & Mohamed Abdelaziz (Flyover Zone)