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A Mind Soothed
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, MO
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Description: 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.
Type: Fountain
Address: 4525 Oak Street
Location:Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Date erected: 1933


    

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