Orpheum Art Auction; Marker #14 is M.I.A.

David Lynch's, "Evening at the Eiffel Tower", one of many works of art up for bid at the Orpheum Art Auction. Posted with permission.

The 2009 Orpheum Art Auction is this week. The auction will be at the Orpheum Thursday, July 16th; silent auction and live auction preview starting at 5 pm; the live auction begins at 7 pm. 75% of the selling price goes back to the artist and the remaining 25% goes to the Orpheum’s student art programs and their ongoing restoration.

I would love to post a picture of marker #14, but it's not on the north west corner of Third and Union where the map I have shows it should be. Right now that corner is covered in scaffolding and a plywood tunnel like walkway due to the repairs being done to part of a wall at the Benchmark Hotel that fell earlier this year. It did not appear that any of the sidewalk had been devastatingly damaged enough for the bronze plaque to have disintegrated into dust. However, I have a list of the markers and what is printed on each of them. Marker #14, should it exist and I believe it must, reads:

"In the basement of the Lyceum Theater, at the Amateur Athletic Club, Memphians could take a plunge into the city's first modern-style swimming pool in 1891."