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Located University of Notre Dame The Grotto Notre Dame Indiana 46556
Date:
1985. Dedicated Feb. 1, 1986
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Indiana survey, 1993.
Image on file.
(On proper right rear:) R. TORRINI 85 (On proper left rear: founder's mark) (On plaque on front of base:) THOMAS A. DOOLEY, M.D. '48/1927-1961/Who as a pre-medical student/cherished Our Lady's Grotto/and who as a physician served the afflicted people of Southeast Asia/with uncommon devotion and dedication/Gift of the/Notre Dame Club of St. Louis/and the sculptor/Rudolph E. Torrini '59/Dedicated February 1, 1986 signed Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
A thirty-year old Dr. Thomas Dooley is seen standing, holding a nude infant in his proper left arm and placing his proper right hand on the shoulder of a young girl standing next to him. The barefoot young girl wears a short shift. She raises her proper left hand to the doctor's hand and holds the hem of her shift with her proper right hand. The sculpture is mounted on a two-tiered rectangular base.
