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''Statler Fountain'' is a 1930 fountain designed by Ulysses Anthony Ricci, installed in
Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
's Statler Park, in the
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Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...
. The
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
fountain features a bronze statue of a woman. It was surveyed as part of the
Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...
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Save Outdoor Sculpture! Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!) was a community-based effort to identify, document, and conserve outdoor sculpture in the United States. The program was initiated in 1989 and ended in 1999. History Save Outdoor Sculpture! was initiated by Herit ...
" program in 1993. File:Statler Park, Boston, MA - sculpture.JPG, The statue, 2008


See also

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1930 in art Events from the year 1930 in art. Events * June–July – Christopher Wood paints in Brittany. * 29 November – Première of the Surrealist film ''L'Age d'Or'' by Luis Buñuel (co-written with Salvador Dalí) at Studio 28 in Paris. * Theo van ...


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