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Stone Age in America, (sculpture). Artist:  Boyle, John J., 1851/52-1917, sculptor. Thiebaut Freres, founder. Title:  Stone Age in America, (sculpture). Dates:  1887. Installed 1888. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. H. 90 in. Diam. 40 in.; Base: approx. H. 50 in. Diam. 67 in. Inscription:  Boyle/ THIEBAUT. FRERES/ Fondeurs (Base, circular bronze plaque:) FAIRMOUNT PARK ART ASSOCIATION/ Presented 1888 signed founder's mark appears Description:  Standing figure of a heroic Native-American female protecting her two children from a bear attack. She wears a dress and boots made from animal hides and her shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle. In her proper right hand she holds a hatchet down at her side. With her proper left arm she clutches a baby to her chest. A small boy crouches by her proper right leg. She looks off into the distance toward her proper left as she strides forward stepping over a dead bear at her feet. The sculpture rests on a circular base. Subject:  Figure group -- Family Ethnic -- Indian Dress -- Ethnic -- Indian Dress Object -- Weapon -- Axe Animal -- Bear Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Sculpture Owner:  Coadministered by City of Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Commission, Memorial Hall, West Park, P. O. Box 21601, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131 Coadministered by Fairmount Park Art Association, 1616 Walnut Street, Suite 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Located Fairmount Park, East side of park, Kelly Drive between Boat House Row & Samuel Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Remarks:  After the piece was completed in 1887, it was displayed at the American Art Association in New York City and then in early 1888, the Fairmount Park Art Association allowed the Messrs. Haseltine and Company to exhibit the piece in Philadelphia. It was then temporarily erected on the sidewalk near the corner of 9th & Chestnut Streets, near the Sweet Briar Mansion area, before finally being installed at its current site in Fairmount Park. References:  Public Monument Conservation Project, 1986. Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 110-117. Bach, Penny Balkin, "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pg. 206. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993. Illustration:  Image on file. Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 110-117. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS PA000021   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture PA000021 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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