BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Public Art

DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Public Art:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SINZAR_230102_10.JPG: The Twentieth Century Club Washington, DC 1890-1990 Celebrating 100 years of civic, cultural, and philanthropic leadership Gift to the National Zoo This refreshing fountain expresses our commitment to beauty and vitality now and into the next century. JIMILU, American sculptor
2. SINZAR_230102_20.JPG: Beautiful Bees Bees and other pollinators keep us fed! Nearly three-quarters of major food crops require pollination. Without pollinators our diets would be very limited. Can you imagine a world without fruits, vegetables, nuts, chocolate, or coffee?
3. SINZAR_230102_22.JPG: The Good of the Hive Artist Matthew Willey was inspired to paint honeybees after an encounter with one tiny bee in his studio in Manhattan. That experience sparked his ongoing project to hand paint 50,000 honeybees, representing the number in a healthy hive, in murals and installations around the world.
4. SINZAR_230102_50.JPG: "Hop To It!" Kim Shaklee -- Sculptor Dedicated to "all the children that pass this way." A gift from Dorothea J. Moritzky to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park September, 1999
5. SINZAR_230402_010.JPG: American Mastodon | Woolly Mammoth | Four-Tusked Mastodon
6. SINZAR_230402_019.JPG: Happy Frog Landscaping Donated by the Twentieth Century Club Washington, DC 1988 in memory of past members
7. SINZAR_230402_039.JPG: A Gift to the National Zoo in Memory of Herman and Evelyn Strock
8. SINZAR_230402_044.JPG: A Fiberglass Film Star This life-sized model of a triceratops may not give autographs but he was the star of a 1968 hit, Uncle Beazley -- for that's who he is -- "starred" in the movie The Enormous Egg, a film based upon the 1956 children's book of the same name. Once filming of the movie finished, this model triceratops was given to the Smithsonian Institution. For years, he made his home on the National Mall near the Natural History Museum (right). In 1994, he came to the Zoo.
9. SINZAR_230402_048.JPG: A Book Brings A Dinosaur To Life In 1956, author Oliver Butterworth brought a dinosaur to life thrilling millions of readers with his tale. In The Enormous Egg, 12-year old Nate Twitchell spots an egg unlike any other on his family farm. A few weeks after Nate's discovery, out hatches a tiny triceratops. Under Nate's care, the dinosaur he named after his great-great-uncle grows and grows. When Uncle Beazley outgrows the Twitchell farm in New Hampshire, he moves to the "National Museum" in Washington, and eventually to the Zoo. And there Beazley stayed "for a long, long time."
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11. SINZAR_230402_074.JPG: Historical Art
12. SINZAR_230402_101.JPG: Eagle Statue
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Atlas Obscura Description: Uncle Beazley the Triceratops
Washington, D.C.
A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

At the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, Sinclair Oil unveiled nine life-sized dinosaurs sculptures. Louis Paul Jonas, a taxidermist and wildlife sculptor, had consulted with paleontologists from prominent natural history museums to build the fiberglass statues. Among them was Uncle Beazley, the triceratops who hatched from a chicken’s egg.
Uncle Beazley is a character from The Enormous Egg, a children’s book about a boy who finds a dinosaur in a hen’s egg. In the book, the farm boy named Nate took care of him until he grew too big. In reality, after the World’s Fair, Uncle Beazley and the other statues toured the country on a flatbed truck in Sinclair’s Dinoland display, and in 1967, the company donated them to museums around the U.S.
Uncle Beazley went to the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum for its opening on September 15, 1967 and was filmed for the Enormous Egg movie in 1968. Jonas made five more statues of varying heights to portray the dinosaur as he grew.
From the 1970s to 1994, he spent his days in front of the National Museum of Natural History, and since 1994 Uncle Beazley has been on display at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., save for a month in 2011 spent getting refurbished at the Smithsonian. Countless children enjoyed playing on the fiberglass sculpture for years, but it’s no longer allowed.

The above was from https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/uncle-beazley-the-triceratops
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