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    		• Fletcher, Ellen,
     
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    		• Walmsley, Anthony,
     
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    		• Walmsley and Company,
     
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    		• New Arts Foundry,
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Recreation -- Sport & Play
     
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    		• Animal -- Fish
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
     
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    		• Relief
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Station no. 6 - Celebration of Water, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Fletcher, Ellen, sculptor.
    Walmsley, Anthony, architect.
    Walmsley and Company, architectural firm.
    New Arts Foundry, founder.
    Title: 
    Station no. 6 - Celebration of Water, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Station no. Six - Celebration of Water, (sculpture).
    Waterworks Interpretive Center, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Commissioned 1988. Dedicated 1989.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: metal; Base: stone.
    Dimensions: 
    Fisherman: approx. 60 x 30 x 29 in.; Natural rock base: approx. 15 x 15 x 15 in.; Plaques: range from 8 x 12 in. to 60 x 36 in.
    Description: 
    This sculptural installation consists of a fisherman seated on a rock at the edge of the water, and a nearby path embedded with twenty-six rectangular plaques depicting different types of fish. The figure of the fisherman is installed on a natural rock at the edge of the river. With his proper right hand he holds his fishing rod out over the river. His tackle box rests behind him on the rock.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Full length
    Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Fishing
    Animal -- Fish
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
    Relief
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Coadministered by City of Philadelphia, Water Department, 1101 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Coadministered by City of Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Commission, Memorial Hall, West Park, P. O. Box 21601, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131
    Located Fairmount Park Waterworks, Lower level, north of Spring Garden Street Bridge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Remarks: 
    The initiator for the sculpture was the Water Department of the City of Philadelphia.
    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 PA001138
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