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National Archives (south side): Heritage & Guardianship statue in Washington, D.C.
by James Earle Fraser (click name for more of that artist's work)
located in James M. Goode's Federal Triangle area (click link for more in that area)
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This is just one of many beautiful works at the National Archives. Click here to see them all.
The National Archives Building, known informally as Archives I, located north of the National Mall on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC, opened as its original headquarters in 1935. It holds the original copies of the three main formative documents of the United States and its government: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Source: Wikipedia
Heritage
THE HERITAGE OF THE PAST IS THE SEED THAT BRINGS FORTH THE HARVEST OF THE FUTURE
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0000500/00510_0000006900 (added ca. 2006)
Guardianship
ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY
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0000500/00510_0000006850 (added ca. 2006)
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0000500/00510_0000006920 (added ca. 2006)
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0000500/00510_0000006870 (added ca. 2006)
Shown here with The Recorder of the Archives tympanum & the Acroterion Eagles in the background
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0000500/00510_0000006840 (added ca. 2006)
Shown here with The Recorder of the Archives tympanum & the Acroterion Eagles in the background
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0000500/00510_0000006890 (added ca. 2006)
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0000500/00510_0000006880 (added ca. 2006)
See James M. Goode's
'Washington Sculpture' (hardcover p 127 Item #4.06; Federal Triangle area);
'Outdoor Sculpture' (paperback p151 Item #D-8)
Medium: Limestone, Granite
Artist: James Earle Fraser (click name for more of that artist's work)
Related subjects: Allegory, Mythology
Location: Constitution Ave between 7th & 9th Sts NW Washington, D.C.
See Federal Triangle area in James Goode's Washington Sculpture
Nearest Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial - Penn Quarter (Yellow - Green) (click station name for all sculptures nearby)
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 78250009 also control # 78250010 (dcMem ID #510 )
| "Outdoor Sculpture" (Heritage & Guardianship) & "Washington Sculpture" (Heritage & Vigilance) don't use the same name. |
Links & other sources
'Who is That Man Anyway?' on Heritage
'Who is That Man Anyway?' on Guardianship
Wikipedia article on Fraser
Wikipedia article on the Archives Building
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