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    		• Frey, Erwin F.,
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Occupation -- Military
     
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    		• Dress -- Uniform
     
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    		• Object -- Weapon
     
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    		• History -- United States
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial: The Revolutionary Soldier, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Frey, Erwin F., 1892-1967, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial: The Revolutionary Soldier, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Revolutionary Soldier, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Installed 1943.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: limestone; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 8 ft. 4 in.x 2 ft. 8 in. x 2 ft. 8 in.; Base: approx. 4 ft. 8 in. x 3 ft. x 3 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Base, front:) THE/REVOLUTIONARY/SOLDIER
    Description: 
    This sculpture is part of a six-piece group (two reliefs and six free-standing figures installed on the South Terrace) that depicts the theme of the U.S. emerging as an independent nation and settling the eastern coast. Frey sculpted two figures, The Statesman (IAS 88320075) and The Revolutionary Soldier, to represent the two major necessities of a new nation --military strength and political intelligence. The Revolutionary Soldier is a male figure stiffly standing at attention. He wears a belted, thigh-length tunic with fringed epaulets, slim pants tucked into boots, and a three-cornered hat. A sash is draped across his chest and over his proper let arm. On his proper right side, he holds a rifle vertically in his proper right hand. A pouch and a gunpowder horn hang from his belt on his proper right side. He stares straight ahead. The sculpture rests on a square base installed in a low wall.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Full length
    Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
    Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
    Object -- Weapon -- Gun
    History -- United States -- Revolution
    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, South Terrace, Kelly Drive below Girard Avenue Bridge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Remarks: 
    Frey and the other sculptors on the South Terrace were chosen for this commission after the second International Exhibition of Sculpture held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1940.
    References: 
    Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 250-257.
    Bach, Penny Balkin, "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pg. pg. 224.
    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. 254.
    Related Works: 
    Companion to: 88320075.
    Companion to: 88320074.
    Companion to: 88320073.
    Companion to: 88320072.
    Companion to: 88320071.
    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 88320076
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