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    		• Phillips, David,
     
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    		• Halvorson Company,
     
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    		• Animal -- Bird
     
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    		• Animal -- Fish
     
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    		• Animal -- Amphibian
     
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    		• Object -- Foodstuff
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Baldwin, Loammi, Jr.
     
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    		• Occupation -- Industry
     
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    		• Allegory -- Quality
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    City Square Park, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Phillips, David, 1944- , sculptor.
    Halvorson Company, landscape architect.
    Title: 
    City Square Park, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1993-1995.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Fountain: approx. H. 25 ft. x Diam. 15 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On front gate sculpture:) D. Phillips (On portrait medallion:) LOAMMI BALDWIN JR./1780-1838/Father of Civil Engineering/SCIENCE & COMMERCE signed
    Description: 
    City Square Park features a fountain adorned with symbols of historic Charlestown. The tall slender fountain is topped with crane standing on a weather vane. Around the bottom of the fountain are two basins with a row of fish spouting water into the top basin. A bronze frog sits on the rim of the lower basin. Around the lower basin is a brick plaza adorned with bronze sculptures of swimming fish. Surrounding the fountain is an ornamental fence adorned with corn cob finials. Throughout the park there are granite piers bearing oval portrait medallions of historic Charlestown figures, such as Loammi Baldwin, Jr., father of civil engineering. At the entrance to the park are two granite gates adorned with bronze sculptures, one of which depicts a female figure holding the scales of justice.
    Subject: 
    Animal -- Bird -- Crane
    Animal -- Fish
    Animal -- Amphibian -- Frog
    Object -- Foodstuff -- Corn
    Portrait male -- Baldwin, Loammi, Jr. -- Bust
    Occupation -- Industry -- Engineering
    Allegory -- Quality -- Justice
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston
    Fountain
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Boston, Boston Art Commission, Office of Cultural Affairs, Boston City Hall, Room 716, Boston, Massachusetts 02201
    Located City Square, Main Street, Chelsea Street, Rutherford Avenue, & City Square Street, Boston, Massachusetts
    Remarks: 
    IAS files contain excerpts from the Sept. 1993 Boston Art Commission Presentation and project description for City Square Park.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997.
    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 MA000230
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