Sutphin Fountain

Infobox City
official_name = Sutphin Fountain


subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_type2 =
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_name1 = Indiana
subdivision_name2 = Indianapolis
subdivision_name3 = Marion County, Indiana
established_title = Dedicated
established_date = 1972

The Sutphin Fountain is a large geometric limestone and concrete fountain located at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The Sutphin Fountain was designed by Stu Dawson with the engineering firms of Fountains Incorporated and Le Messurier Associates. The fountain is seated on the IMA's twenty-six acre main campus, directly to the northeast of the building's main entrance, and is forty inches high, with an inner diameter of thirty-four feet. [http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!339004!0] The inspiration for the fountain's intricate circular design was Indianapolis' moniker of "The Circle City." The fountain was dedicated in 1972.

Renovations

Having been created in the early '70's, building around the Sutphin fountain proved difficult when the IMA was renovated from 1998 to 2004. [http://www.iesna.org/PDF/Archives/2005_11.pdf] The renovations have the new Puck's restaurant looking out over the fountain.

External links

*Indianapolis Museum of Art [http://www.imamuseum.org/explore/grounds Gardens + Grounds]

*The Sutphin Fountain on [http://flickr.com/photos/jgoodman/sets/72157604284633892/ Flickr]

*The LOVE (Sculpture) at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

*The Numbers 0-9 sculpture at the Indianapolis Museum of Art