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Chapel Door Handles (Outside)

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  • Title Chapel Door Handles (Outside)
  • Category Utilitarian
  • Medium Wood with inset ceramic plaque
  • Medium Pacific Northwest (subject or artist), Religious
  • Dimensions 15.25"h x 2"w x 3.5"d
  • Year Completed 1979
  • Description These door handles were designed by Harold Balazs, and they were located on the outside of each of the main Chapel doors. They are wood handles with a rectangular red ceramic plaque decorated with orange and black crosses inset into the wood . The inside of each door had a wood cross handle with an inset cross-shaped ceramic blue plaque that features the symbols of the four Gospel writers: Matthew (man/angel); Mark (lion); Luke (ox); John (eagle) (see accession number 1979.0001.a-d).
  • Notes The door handles were removed in summer 2019 during the renovation of the chapel and addition of the Beeksma Family Theology Center.
  • Artist Harold Balazs American 1928-2017
  • Credit University Purchase
  • Location Library Art Storage K5
  • Accession Number 1979.0002.a-d
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