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Calder, Alexander Stirling,
Portrait male
Sculpture
Witherspoon
Building Figures, (sculpture).
Artist:
Calder
, Alexander Stirling, 1870-1945, sculptor.
Title:
Witherspoon
Building Figures, (sculpture).
Dates:
1898-1899. Installed ca. 1899.
Medium:
Sculptures: cast stone.
Dimensions:
6 figures.
Description:
Six figures of prominent American Presbyterians.
Subject:
Portrait male
Object Type:
Sculpture
Owner:
Witherspoon
Building, Broad & Juniper streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Remarks:
There were originally 12 figures on the seventh story of the Walnut Street facade of the
Witherspoon
building. The building housed the Presbyterian Historical Society from 1898-1967. In 1961, when the figures became a threat to the pedestrians below, they were removed. Under the city's one percent fine arts program, six of the figures were relocated at the new location of the Presbyterian Historical Society on Lombard Street. (IAS 88320050-88320054 and 76007256). The other six remained behind.
References:
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 209.
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 76005637
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Inventory of American Sculpture
76005637
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