Higher Education Reflects Responsibility to the World, (sculpture) - San Antonio, TX
N 29° 27.908 W 098° 29.066
14R E 549990 N 3259630
In the middle of a campus roundabout is a small fountain pool with a wonderful sculpture of a man, the world, and the flame of knowledge.
Waymark Code: WMEBYN
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/04/2012
Views: 3
This large scupture is found at the end of E. Rosewood Ave. where the street ends at a traffic circle where Rosewood intersects with Trinity Placed on the Trinity University campus. The traffic circle is actually a small pool, or fountain in which a stone base has been raised above the water line of the pool. On the stone base is a large bronze sculpting of a nude male sitting on a bench next to a globe of the world. The seated male figure is holding a torch of enlightenment with his left arm resting on the globe. His right hand holds an opened book on his lap, which is conveniently modestly draped. The statue fo the man is about seven feet from ground to top of head and is mounted on a flat stone base.
On the perimeter of the fountain area, a small sidewalk allows a visitor to read a bronze plaque that states:
"The scholar
is the student
of the world"
Emerson
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Charman-Cowles
1968
Sculptor Waldine Tauch"
TITLE: Higher Education Reflects Responsibility to the World, (sculpture)
ARTIST(S): Waldine Amanda Tauch, sculptor
DATE: 1965
MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS TX000161
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
End of E. Rosewood Ave. where it meets Trinity Place at a traffic circle made from this sculpture and its pool.
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
none noted.
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