Administered by Dauphin County Buildings and Grounds Front & Market Streets Pennsylvania 17101
Located Dauphin County Courthouse Harrisburg Pennsylvania
Date:
Reliefs: 1941-1942. Figure: 1944
Notes:
Tampa Museum of Art, 1980.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1994.
Image on file.
Howarth, Shirley Reiff, "C. Paul Jennewein: Sculptor," Florida: Tampa Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 52-3.
(On figure's proper right side, near base:) (copyright symbol)/1944/CP Jennewein Sc/J K Watt Carver
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Summary:
Various architectural decorations for doors and entrances of the courthouse. Above the entrance is of man holding a scythe and standing with bushels of wheat. The Dauphin County seal depicts a coat of arms with and eagle on top flanked by a Native American on the left and a settler with a rifle on the right. In front of the courthouse is a nude male figure standing on top of a dragon to symbolize "Youth Crushing Evil." He holds a bundle of arrows in his proper left hand and raises his proper right arm.
