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Renzi, the sculptor who created, “The Three Graces” and “The Three Rs,”
two iconic pieces of art on the California State University, Fresno
campus, has died.
Mr. Renzi was 84 when he succumbed to cancer on Tuesday, Dec. 1, in
Fresno, where he had been sculpting from his backyard studio since the
1960s.
“The Three Graces” is a bronze piece outside an entrance to the Music
Building’s Concert Hall. It was cast in 1972 in Verona, Italy. The
sculpture was donated to the university in 1995 by real estate executive
Helen Smades, a longtime supporter of Fresno State and a member of its
Foundation Board of Governors.
“The Three Rs” was installed in 1998 near the east entrance to Fresno
State’s Kremen School of Education and Human Development as part of the
Teachers Honor Plaza. The design is incorporated in the school’s logo.
A twin of the three-foot sculpture, which salutes education’s
foundation, is in the Fresno County Office of Education, which joined
Educational Employees Credit Union in presenting “The Three Rs” to
Fresno State.
Mr. Renzi’s work is in many public places around the community,
including the Fulton Mall and Courthouse Park in downtown Fresno, and
also at the University of Virginia, Notre Dame University and Penn
Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
His wife, Dorothy, is an emerita professor of music at Fresno State. She
was on the faculty from 1968-84.
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