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Sherman, Rosalie,
Keil Welding,
Allegory -- Arts & Sciences
Animal -- Cattle
Object -- Furniture
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Eastwick Farmpark I - Cow #1, (sculpture).
Artist:
Sherman, Rosalie, 1946- , sculptor.
Keil Welding, welder.
Title:
Eastwick Farmpark I - Cow #1, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Eastwick Farmpark (First Phase) - Cow #1, (sculpture).
Dates:
1983.
Medium:
Sculpture: sheet aluminum, painted brown, white, & pink, redwood, with plastic covered ears, tail, horns and udders; Base: concrete.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 50 x 40 x 84 in.; Base: (level with the ground) approx. 36 x 43 x 79 in.
Inscription:
(On proper right front inside leg, two lines of text form a right angle:) Rosalie Sherman 1983/Cow #1 signed
Description:
One of eight sculptures in a group consisting of five sheep and three cows. Cow #1 is a sculpture of a white cow with brown spots and a pink nose and udders. Cow is facing straight ahead with head and neck dropped. Redwood seating planks project from both the proper left and proper right sides of the torso. The surfaces have been painted in a hard-edge style. The group is located in a large grassy football field size area.
Subject:
Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Agriculture
Animal -- Cattle
Object -- Furniture -- Bench
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Philadelphia, Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, Percent for Art, 1234 Market Street, 8th floor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
Located Eastwick, 84th & Crane Streets, southeast corner, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Remarks:
A plaque, now missing, was located on a rock at the corner of 84th and Crane Streets and featured an inscription which stated the name of the artist, the initiator (the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia), and a reference about the various developers of the Eastwick area who funded the project. For related article see: "1983 in Review: Public Art" Art in America (Annual 1984): pg. 43. IAS files contain related article from the Philadelphia Inquirer (Dec. 4, 1983), which discusses the competition held to select the sculpture and includes the artist's thoughts on the sculpture. Created as part of the Percent for Art program.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.
Bach, Penny Balkin, "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pg. 167, 250.
"Commissions," American Craft (Aug./Sept. 1986): pg. 64-65.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 4, 1983, Sect. H, pg. 1, 18.
Illustration:
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 4, 1983, Sect. H, pg. 18.
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 PA000074
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