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    		• Knight, Charles Robert,
     
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    		• Stapleton, Thomas,
     
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    		• Roman Bronze Works,
     
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    		• Homage -- Palmer, Edgar
     
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    		• Occupation -- Monetary
     
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    		• Animal -- Tiger
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Princeton
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Palmer Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953, sculptor.
    Stapleton, Thomas, architect.
    Roman Bronze Works, founder.
    Title: 
    Palmer Memorial, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Tiger, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1944. Dedicated Nov. 25, 1944.
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    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 43 x 25 x 100 in.; Base: approx. 71 x 60 x 133 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On side of bronze base, under tiger's proper right rear leg, incised lettering:) C.R. KNIGHT. 1944 ROMAN BRONZE CORP. NY. (Plaque on base, raised lettering:) IN MEMORY OF/EDGAR PALMER/WHOSE VISION AND GENEROSITY/PLANNED AND BUILT THIS SQUARE/FOR PRINCETON/WHICH HE SO LOVED/ERECTED BY HIS FRIENDS/1944. signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A reclining tiger is mounted on a rectangular base.
    Subject: 
    Homage -- Palmer, Edgar
    Occupation -- Monetary -- Philanthropist
    Animal -- Tiger
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Princeton
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Palmer Square, Nassau Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
    Remarks: 
    The memorial commemorates Edgar Palmer (1880-1943), Princeton class of 1903, for whom Palmer Square is named. He conceived of Palmer Square to create a "Colonial Princeton" that had never existed. He wanted to give Princeton a town center with colonial-styled businesses and dwellings to replace substandard housing behind Nassau Street. The base was designed by Thomas Stapleton, the architect for Palmer Square. Due to World War II restrictions on bronze, the sculpture was cast from pieces of bronze donated by friends of Edgar Palmer. Among the bronze pieces sent in were some found in the ruins of the Princeton University gymnasium destroyed by fire in 1944 and left overs from the casting of the carillon bells in the tower of the graduate school.
    IAS files contain articles from The Princeton Herald, Dec. 1, 1944, pg. 1, 7 and the Princeton Packet, Nov. 23, 1944; and an excerpt from Randy Hobler and Jeanne Silvester's, "Princeton; On the Streets Where We Live," c. 1991. For additional information see also: The Princeton Herald, Oct. 27, 1944, pg. 1 and Nov. 24, 1944, pg. 1, 4.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1994.
    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 NJ000398
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