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Charles Edward Diehl

Rust, Ted
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Rust, Ted
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Keywords
Images, Art and Art History, Department of, Bronze, Statues
Local ID
2015x-181
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Rhodes College Collection of Art
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http://hdl.handle.net/10267/26755
Abstract
This is a large outdoor sculpture of Charles Edward Diehl wearing regalia and holding something in his right hand. The platforms around him have engraved “CHARLES EDWARD DIEHL” , “IT WAS OUT PURPOSE TO LAUNCH HERE AN INSTITUTION WHICH WOULD ENURE FOR CENTURIES, AND WHICH WOULD COMMAND THE RESPECT AND QUICKEN THE PRIDE OF SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS” , “THE SCULPTURE IS PROVIDED / THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF / FRIENDS AND ALUMNI OF THE COLLEGE”. Behind the statue has written, “ THE IDEAL OF THIS COLLEGE HAS BEEN / SUMMARIZED IN TWO WORDS: / GENUINENESS AND EXCELLENCE.”
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Artwork photographed and inventoried by the 2015 Summer Art Inventory team in the Visual Resources Center.