Penguin's Prayer, (sculpture).

Penguin's Prayer, (sculpture).

Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970, sculptor.

Penguin's Prayer, (sculpture).

1958. Dedicated May 16, 1983.

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Cast granite with concrete base.

Sculpture: approx. 101 x 34 x 34 in.; Base: approx. 8 1/2 x 60 x 60 in.

(Plaque on base:) Beniamino Bufano/Italian 1898-1970/Penguin's Prayer/(1958)/Cast granite/Gift of/Mr. and Mrs. Ronald V. Osmon unsigned

A large penguin and two smaller penguins, possibly representing a family. The larger penguin's head is tilted back, looking up at the sky. The two smaller penguins are placed in front of and at the base of the larger penguin, with their heads interlocking in the center of the composition. The forms are very simple, rounded and lacking in any definition other than their general shapes. The stone is an aggregate of peach and black and grey granite.

Animal -- Bird -- Penguin

Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University, University Collections, 33rd Street & North Charles Street, Bufano Sculpture Garden in Dunning Park, Baltimore, Maryland 21218

This sculpture is one of ten cast stone animal sculptures, all by Bufano, that are located in the Bufano Sculpture Garden in Dunning Park on Johns Hopkins University's Homewood Campus. The sculptures were all given to the University by the artist's son, Erskine Bufano and other members of the Bufano Society of the Arts. IAS files contain the program from the 1983 dedication of the Bufano Sculpture Garden, and a 1976 press release which describes the selection of Johns Hopkins University as the recipient of the sculptures.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maryland, Baltimore survey, 1993.

Harrington, Brian, "A Brief History of the Homewood Campus: Its Buildings, Monuments & Sculpture," 1991.

SOS Assessment Award, 1998.

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.

Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

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