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    Naiad, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Frudakis, Evangelos, 1921-2019, sculptor.
    George E. Patton, Inc., architectural firm.
    Title: 
    Naiad, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Reaching (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Commissioned 1978. Copyrighted 1981. Installed 1983.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 24 x 78 x 36 in.; Base: approx. 48 x 30 x 12 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Sculpture, outside of proper right foot:) Evangelos Frudakis (copyright symbol) 1981 (Bronze plaque on rim of fountain basin:) Naiad/Sculpture by/Evangelos Frudakis/1983. signed
    Description: 
    A nude female figure with long flowing hair is perched on rock in the middle of a fountain basin. She leans over the rock on her proper left side and reaches into the water with her proper right hand. Her bent proper left leg rests against the rock and her proper right leg stretches out straight. She looks over into the water and grasps the edge of the rock with her proper left hand.
    Subject: 
    Mythology -- Classical -- Naiad
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
    Fountain
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Philadelphia, Department of Public Property, Municipal Services Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
    Located Philadelphia Civic Center, 34th Street & Civic Center Boulevard, Ecological Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    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 77002848
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