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Ruthven Museums Facade Bas Reliefs

Artwork Details

Ruthven Museums Facade Bas Reliefs
1928
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Description

Physical Description:

West, easy, and north facing facades of the Museums Building In the third floor spandrels there are bas reliefs representing pioneer American naturalists—Thomas Say, Daniel Brinton, John Wesley Powell, Asa Gray, Joseph Leidy and Louis Agassiz. There are also reliefs of the first three directors of the U-M Museums—Abram Sager, Alexander Winchell and Joseph Beal Steere—as well as many reliefs representing zoological figures. 

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