Library of Congress: America Fostering the Arts & Industries tympanum in Washington, D.C. by William Boyd, Edward Pierce Casey, J L Smithmeyer, Paul J Pelz

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Library of Congress: America Fostering the Arts & Industries tympanum in Washington, D.C. by William Boyd, Edward Pierce Casey, J L Smithmeyer, Paul J Pelz

The America Fostering the Arts & Industries tympanum is a granite relief sculpture on the Library of Congress Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C., created circa 1897 by William Boyd and architects Edward Pierce Casey, J L Smithmeyer, and Paul J Pelz. It allegorically represents the nurturing of arts and industries in America through figures symbolizing painting, architecture, commerce, music, and literature. Located at Independence Avenue and 1st Street SE near the Capitol South Metro station, it is part of the building's rich artistic decoration and is documented in the Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog.