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Adams, Alice,
Kelly, Mary,
Bailey, Charles,
Demas, Carl,
Laucharoen, Prawat,
Palevsky, Gerald,
Kling Lindquist Partnership,
Environmental Engineering,
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Landscape -- Plant
Landscape -- Plant
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Fountain
Earthwork
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
The Roundabout, (sculpture).
Artist:
Adams, Alice, 1930- , sculptor.
Kelly, Mary, landscape architect.
Bailey, Charles, architect.
Demas, Carl, architect.
Laucharoen, Prawat, 1941- , sculptor.
Palevsky, Gerald, engineer.
Kling Lindquist Partnership, architectural firm.
Environmental Engineering, engineering firm.
Title:
The Roundabout, (sculpture).
Dates:
1992. Dedicated May 8, 1992.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Concrete, flagstone, green, pink, & white granite, sandstone, with bronze paving tiles, and landscape plantings.
Inscription:
(On northeast section, on various bronze tiles:) Digitalis; Vinca; Dioscorea; Belladonna Atropa; Papaya Carica; L-O-E-A-dioscorides; Helleborus Niger; Sangwinaria Canadensis; Claviceps/purpurea; podophylum/petatum; colchicum/autumnale; Rauvolfia/serpentina; Hyoscyamus/Niger; papaver; physostigma/venenosum unsigned
Description:
The sculpture is symbolic of Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, where all the roads and paths are called roundabouts. The low curving walls of the various pathways define garden, thicket, terraced lawn, and earth mound. A green granite water wall is set into the east side of the central mound, its lower waterfall and pool facing the front
door
of the building. Stairways on either side lead to a flagstone path on top of the mound, and a bluestone seating wall curves around the horizontal granite slabs of the upper water wall. Water flows across these slabs and tumbles over the slanted tiered panel of the lower waterfall. In the northwest corner, green, pink and white granite form a paving in the shape of the great lawn at Monticello. Botanical images of plants used in past and present medical care are etched into bronze plates set into the paving. The plantings are the same as some of those found at Monticello.
Subject:
Landscape
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Plant
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Digitalis
Landscape
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Plant
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Vinca
Landscape
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Plant
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Dioscorea
Landscape
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Plant
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Belladonna Atropa
Landscape
--
Plant
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Papaya Carica
Landscape
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Plant
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Loea Dioscorides
Landscape
--
Plant
--
Helleborus
Landscape
--
Plant
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Sangwinaria Canadensis
Landscape
--
Plant
--
Claviceps Purpurea
Landscape
--
Plant
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Podophylum Petatum
Landscape
--
Plant
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Colchicum Autumnale
Landscape
--
Plant
--
Rauvolfia Serpentina
Landscape
--
Plant
--
Hyoseyamus Niger
Landscape
--
Plant
--
Papaver
Landscape
--
Plant
--
Physostigma Venenosum
Landscape
--
Garden
Allegory
--
Place
--
Monticello
Architecture
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Detail
--
Door
Object Type:
Fountain
Earthwork
Outdoor Sculpture
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
Located Thomas Jefferson University, Bleumle Life Sciences Building, northeast corner, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.
Illustration:
Image on file.
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 PA000052
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