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The ''Sewall Memorial Torches'' are a pair of bronze lampposts dedicated in 1923 in honor of May Wright Sewall, an educator, civic organizer, women's rights activist, and peace movement advocate, who was a founder of the Art Association of Indianapolis in 1883. The Art Association is the precursor to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Sewall served as the association's president from 1893 to 1898. The lampposts are owned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), and displayed in front of Herron High School, the former site of the Art Association's John Herron Art Institute, at 16th and Pennsylvania streets in the Herron-Morton Place Historic District of downtown Indianapolis. The memorial lampposts were commercially produced by the Gorham Manufacturing Company. ==Description== These two ornate lampposts are constructed from multiple pieces of cast bronze that are welded together. A foundry mark on the side of the base indicates that they were made by Gorham Company Founders. The base is roughly square with angular corners that terminate with symmetrical, three-toed lion's paws. The four paws were cast from the same mold and then welded to the base. The vertical sides of the base, about in height, display a Greek key pattern. This is surmounted by a low, conical wreath of acanthus leaves that meets the cylindrical column shaft approximately above the vertical sides. The base is welded to the lower section of the vertical element, which is approximately in diameter and tall. It is decorated with several tiers of repeating, vertical, leaf-like patterns, topped with a wreath of acanthus leaves projecting outwards approximately from the section below it. The middle section of the vertical element consists of a -wide fluted column shaft topped by a capital, rising a total of . The capital is adorned with four bucrania (bulls’ skulls) and garlands. A wide, circular pan about in diameter rests atop the capital. This element is decorated with fluting that radiates outward. A small, ornate bronze element is anchored in the center of the pan (remaining mostly out of view from the ground), and acts as a support to the light fixture and globe. Electrical hardware rests on this and connects the globes to the lamp structure. The spherical globes, which were purchased by the IMA in 2010, are made of translucent white plastic and measure in diameter. The torches are identical except for inscriptions on the front of each base. The lamppost on the west side of the walkway reads: :MAY WRIGHT SEWALL :BORN GREENFIELD, WIS., MAY 27, 1844 :DIED INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JULY 22, 1920 :"LEAD KINDLY LIGHT" The lamppost to the east reads: :IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF :MAY WRIGHT SEWALL :IN WHOSE WISE AND FARSEEING THOUGHT ORIGINATED :THE IDEA OF AN ART ASSOCIATION OF INDIANAPOLIS 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sewall Memorial Torches」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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