Creation Date

Sculpture creation date: ca. mid-1980s

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Black and white photograph of an unidentified University of Maine football player posing in uniform beneath a polished brass sports-themed wall sculpture mounted on a brick exterior wall of Memorial Gymnasium. The photograph shows a young man in a dark UMaine football uniform with the number 32 on his jersey, wearing a helmet and cleats, standing on a tiled walkway in front of a brick wall. He rests one hand against the wall beside a rectangular plaque and smiles toward the camera. Above him is the sculpture "Circle of Sports," by Barry Norling, circa mid-1980s, made of polished brass and depicting stylized men and women engaged in baseball, basketball, football, tennis, ice hockey, and soccer, arranged in a circular composition. University of Maine, Orono, Maine. 1994. Unidentified photographer. (NA4800.)

Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!) (1990-1995) was a nationwide survey that ran from 1990-1995 documenting America’s outdoor sculpture. Established in 1990, SOS! helped educate local communities about America’s endangered sculptural heritage. The Maine Arts Commission was one of 106 organizations to participate in this survey.

Topic

Sculpture

Collection

MF161

Series Number

NA4800

Identifier

p16953

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Existence and Location of Originals

Located at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: AFC 2012/047 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013655211.

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