Dayton Art Institute fountain   Save
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Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery County Dayton Art Institute July 12, 1938 Fountain between the stairways of the Dayton Art Institute. The fountain is commercial, but the crouching figure in the upper basin is the work of noted Dayton sculptor and former teacher of the institute, Seth M Velsey. Photo by Federal Writers' Project, Dayton, Ohio." Founded in a downtown mansion in 1919 as the Dayton Museum of Fine Arts, the museum moved to a newly designed Edward B. Green building in 1930. The DAI was modeled after the Casino in the gardens of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the front hillside stairway after the Italian Renaissance garden stairs at the Villa d'Este, near Rome, and Italy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F07_006_001
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)