Creation Date

Sculpture creation date: 1992

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Color photograph of a landscaped lawn in front of a roadway and large brick buildings, showing small evergreen trees and planted beds arranged in a geometric pattern. The photograph depicts “Overlays,” an architectural landscape design by Robert C. Hoover, dedicated Autumn 1992, at the Consolidated Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Augusta, Maine, with a gently sloping green lawn in the foreground and several brick institutional buildings across a road in the background. Small evergreen trees are planted at regular intervals in a loose grid, each rising from its own circular or angular mulch bed that echoes the rectilinear geometry of the distant buildings. Within and between these beds are low plantings, including angular plots intended for red and yellow dogwood and patches of wild grasses, forming a series of interlocking geometric shapes across the lawn. A darker strip represents a bed of coal that visually separates the nearer planting area from the far side of the lawn. Several cars, a sign for the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and scattered mature shade trees appear beyond the landscaped area, situating the design within an active civic setting. 1994. Unidentified, photographer. (See p17054-p17059)(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

p17057

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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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