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Tacha, Athena,
Gaudet Associates,
Heyser Landscaping,
Abstract
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Site-specific
Earthwork
Sculpture
Connections, Franklin Town Park, (sculpture).
Artist:
Tacha, Athena, 1936- , sculptor.
Gaudet Associates, engineering firm.
Heyser Landscaping, contractor.
Title:
Connections, Franklin Town Park, (sculpture).
Dates:
Commissioned 1981. 1981-1992. Copyrighted 1992.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: granite boulders and Pennsylvania brown stone walled terraces with plants and rocks.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 2 acres (1 city block).
Inscription:
(Two granite plaques located one on the southwest stone wall of the terrace and one on a rock on the southeast corner of the lawn:) FRANKLIN TOWN PARK: CONNECTIONS/DESIGNED BY ATHENA TACHA (copyright symbol) 1992/DONATED TO THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA/BY FRANKLIN TOWN CORPORATION/COMMISSIONED IN COOPERATION WITH THE/REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA/ONE PERCENT FINE ARTS PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER: GAUDET ASSOCIATES, INC./CONTRACTORS: HEYSER LANDSCAPING, INC. signed
Description:
A park designed as a "Landscape Sculpture" with terraced planters, rock clusters, lawns, fifty trees, paths and benches. The park contains a series of semicircular, dry-masonry terraced planters. A walkway borders the planters.
Subject:
Abstract
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Site-specific
Earthwork
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Commission, Memorial Hall, West Park, P. O. Box 21601, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131
Located Franklin Town Park, between 18th & 19th Streets, south of Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Remarks:
The sculpture was commissioned in cooperation with the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia's One Percent Fine Arts Program and donated by the Franklin Town Corporation. The cost of the project was one million dollars. IAS files contain a copy of a brochure which includes the artist's statement and a blueprint for the design. IAS files also contain a related article from the Philadelphia Inquirer, June 14, 1992, pg. H1.
References:
Tacha, Athena, 1993, 1997.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.
Tacha, Athena, "Dancing in the Landscape: The Sculpture of Athena Tacha," Washington, D.C.: Editions Ariel of Grayson Publishing, 2000, pg. 40.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 14, 1992, pg. H1.
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 74240020
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Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
74240020
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