Commerce: Seated Male Figure, (sculpture).

Commerce: Seated Male Figure, (sculpture).

Botteiau, Alfred, 1889-1951, sculptor.

Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945, architect.

Commerce: Seated Male Figure, (sculpture).

Sculpture: marble.

Sculpture: approx. 7.4 x 7.8 x 17 in.; Base: approx. 14 in. x 7.10 ft. x 19 in.

Commerce is portrayed as a seated male figure holding a sheaf of wheat in his proper right hand and the tools of industry in his proper left hand. Commerce is one of two allegorical reliefs on the front of the Federal Reserve Building.

Figure male -- Full length

Allegory -- Arts & Sciences

Object -- Foliage -- Wheat

Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Administered by United States General Services Administration, Washington, District of Columbia

Located Federal Reserve Bank, 9th & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The relief was created through the Works Progress Administration. IAS files contain excerpts from Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 248 and Penny Balkin Bach's "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pg. 219.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.

Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 248.

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