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A Mind Soothed
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4525 Oak Street
Nelson-Atkins Museum
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| Kansas City, MO |
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| Date Erected: 1933 |
| Of the Nelson Art Gallery, J.C. Nichols said: "We had always in mind that unwelcome disease 'museum fatigue', and everything is planned to prevent it." The opening of the courtyard in 1933, featured the fountain in its center. The massive marble bowl weighs approximately four tons. Water overflows to the basin below only to be returned by eight nozzles arching upward. A shuttlecock is also pictured here. Although not a fountain, these sculptures make the campus of the Nelson Art Museum easily recognizable. |
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