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    Eastwick Farmpark I - Sheep E, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Sherman, Rosalie, 1946- , sculptor.
    Keil Welding, welder.
    Title: 
    Eastwick Farmpark I - Sheep E, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Eastwick Farmpark (First Phase) - Sheep E, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1983.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: sheet aluminum, painted black & white, redwood, & plastic covered ears and tail; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 34 x 37 x 54 in.; Base: (level with the ground) approx. 36 x 33 x 55 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On underside, proper left front side of sculpture:) "Rosalie Sherman 1983 Sheep E" signed
    Description: 
    One of eight sculptures in a group consisting of five sheep and three cows. Sheep E is a stylized, planar sculpture of a sheep with redwood seat planks projecting from each side of the sheep's torso. The sheep is white with a black face, ears, tail, and feet. Its head is turned to its proper left. The surfaces have been painted in a hard-edged style. The group is located in a large grassy, football field size area.
    Subject: 
    Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Agriculture
    Animal -- Sheep
    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 rock at 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: 
    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 PA000073
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