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...
Greenberg, Joseph J., Jr.,
Animal -- Bear
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Bear and Her Cub, (sculpture).
Artist:
Greenberg, Joseph J., Jr., 1915-1991, sculptor.
Title:
Bear and Her Cub, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Bear and Cub, (sculpture).
Dates:
1957. Installed Sept. 19, 1957. Dedicated May 1958.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: black Coopersburg granite.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 49 x 68 1/2 x 32 in. (4 tons); Base: H. 11 in.
Inscription:
(Base, back:) J. Greenberg 1957 signed
Description:
A mother bear standing beside her cub which is seated on her proper right.
Subject:
Animal -- Bear
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Owner:
Philadelphia Zoological Garden, 34th Street & Girard Avenue, Bear Country, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Remarks:
Work originally commissioned by Markley Stevenson, a landscape architect and member of Fairmount Park Art Association, for installation in a park in West Philadelphia. Although funds were short, the Association agreed to buy the piece and present to Philadelphia Zoological Garden.
References:
Philadelphia Zoological Garden, 1990.
Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 299.
Bach, Penny Balkin, "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pg. 231.
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. 299.
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 46200007
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
46200007
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
