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Reference book:
'Washington Sculpture'
by James M. Goode



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Awakening statue (ca. 1980) at its former location in East Potomac Park (Hain's Point) in Washington, D.C.
by J Seward Johnson Jr (click name for more of that artist's work)
located in James M. Goode's Potomac Park area (click link for more in that area)


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On February 8, 2008, the statue was dismantled and moved to the new National Harbor resort across the Potomac River & south a few miles in Prince George's County, Maryland.

See Awakening at its new location at National Harbor





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Here's the same, now sad, location in April, 2008.

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James M. Goode's
'Washington Sculpture' (hardcover p 486 Item #11.01; Potomac Park area)

Medium: Aluminum
Artist: J Seward Johnson Jr (click name for more of that artist's work)
Related subjects: Allegory, Mythology
Location: Ohio Drive @ Hain's Point Washington, D.C.
See Potomac Park area in James Goode's Washington Sculpture
Nearest Metro: Smithsonian (Orange - Blue - Silver) (click station name for all sculptures nearby)
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 56940003 (dcMem ID #1120 )

Links & other sources
Wikipedia article on The Awakening
National Harbor website on Awakening
Wikipedia on East Potomac Park
Seward Johnson website

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