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    		• Fenton, Beatrice,
     
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    		• Roman Bronze Works,
     
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    		• Homage -- Price, Evelyn Taylor
     
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    		• Figure -- Child
     
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    		• Figure group
     
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    		• Object -- Flower
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
     
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    		• Sundial
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Evelyn Taylor Price Memorial Sundial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Fenton, Beatrice, 1887-1983, sculptor.
    Roman Bronze Works, founder.
    Title: 
    Evelyn Taylor Price Memorial Sundial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1947.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 5 x 2 1/2 x 2 ft.; Base: approx. 4 x 3 x 2 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Face of sundial:) THE HOUR PASSES/FRIENDSHIP ABIDES (Base, around top:) TRIBUTE TO EVELYN TAYLOR PRICE signed
    Description: 
    Two nude children stand facing each other with their arms reaching up to hold a sunflower between them. The face of a sundial is in the center of the sunflower. The stem of the flower hangs down between the two figures. The children stand on a highly polished circular base.
    Subject: 
    Homage -- Price, Evelyn Taylor
    Figure -- Child -- Nude
    Figure group
    Object -- Flower -- Sunflower
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
    Sundial
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Commission, Memorial Hall, West Park, P. O. Box 21601, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131
    Located Rittenhouse Square, Walnut Street between 18th & 19th streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Remarks: 
    This piece was commissioned by the Rittenhouse Square Improvement Association. Inscription on plaque in ground in front of base reads: EVELYN TAYLOR PRICE/PRESIDENT/RITTENHOUSE SQUARE FLOWER MARKET ASSOCIATION/1916-1939/ RITTENHOUSE SQUARE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION/1934-1946/ERECTED BY HER FRIENDS.
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    City of Philadelphia, 1973.
    Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 302.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 302.
    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 75009327
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