Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
General Keyword
Artist Keyword
Title Keyword
Subject Keyword
Object Type Keyword
Owner Keyword
Control Number Keyword
Refine Search
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Warneke, Heinz,
Rochette & Parzini,
Al Steinskulptur Atlier,
Animal -- Elephant
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
African Elephant and Calf, (sculpture).
Artist:
Warneke, Heinz, 1895-1983, sculptor.
Rochette & Parzini, modeler.
Al Steinskulptur Atlier, carver.
Title:
African Elephant and Calf, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Mother Elephant and Her Calf, (sculpture).
Cow Elephant and Calf, (sculpture).
Dates:
1962. Copyrighted 1962. Installed Oct. 24, 1962. Dedicated May 25, 1963.
Medium:
Norwegian grey Bergan granite.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 132 x 84 x 60 in.; Base: approx. 6 x 103 x 48 in. (37 tons).
Inscription:
(Base:) H. Warneke, Sculptor 1962 (copyright symbol) signed
Description:
Elephant protecting calf with her trunk.
Subject:
Animal -- Elephant
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Owner:
Philadelphia Zoological Garden, 34th Street & Girard Avenue, Rare Animal House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Remarks:
This sculpture is the largest monolithic, freestanding sculpture in the United States. In 1959 Warneke won the Fairmount Park Art Association competition with his one-quarter scale plaster model for this sculpture; however, enlarging it was a lengthy process. First, the model was scaled up in clay and then plaster by the New York firm of Rochette & Parzini. The piece was then shipped to Al Steinskulptur Atlier in Oslo, Norway to be cut into large pieces of granite and then Norwegian stone cutters under the direction of Warneke carved the piece. A fence was installed around the sculpture in 1993.
References:
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
City of Philadelphia, 1973.
Philadelphia Zoological Garden, 1990.
Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 316.
Bach, Penny Balkin, "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pg. 233.
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. 316.
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 75009338
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
75009338
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact
Login
Help
