New Mexico School of Mines: “Maiden of the Desert” Sculpture – Socorro NM

City:
Socorro, NM

Site Type:
Art Works, Sculptures

Artist:
Eugenie Shonnard

Description

Created for the Sandia Prep School in Albuquerque. It has moved back and forth between NMTU and Sandia a couple of times, but now seems permanently situated here. This may not in fact have been a government-funded piece.

Medium: sandstone

New Mexico School of Mines is now known as New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

Source notes

Originally posted in the New Deal Art Registry: https://www.newdealartregistry.org/

Location Info


801 Leroy Place
Socorro, NM 87801

Location notes: Courtyard in front of Workman Center

Coordinates: 34.066312, -106.90409

Site Details

[email protected] created on 2012-07-04 11:53:01 -0700 [email protected] last modified on 2012-07-04 11:59:30 -0700

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  1. See New Deal Art in NMT library.

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