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Samuel Eliot Morison, (sculpture). Artist:  Jencks, Penelope, 1936- , sculptor. Title:  Samuel Eliot Morison, (sculpture). Dates:  1982. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite. Inscription:  (Incised on front of rock:) SAMUEL/ELIOT/MORISON/1887-1976/SAILOR HISTORIAN (Stone plaque on proper right of base:) TO/MY READERS/YOUNG AND OLD/"A FLOWNE SHEATE/A FAIRE WIND/A BOUNE VOYAGE" (Stone plaque, proper left of base:) DREAM DREAMS/THEN WRITE THEM/AYE, BUT LIVE THEM FIRST Description:  Full-length portrait of Samuel Eliot Morison, wearing sailing clothing, a windbreaker and a visored cap, seated on a rock. He holds binoculars in his proper right hand in his lap. Circular platform at foot of sculpture includes bronze casts of shells, starfish, and crabs, as if at ocean edge. Subject:  Portrait male -- Morison, Samuel Eliot -- Full length Occupation -- Education Occupation -- Transportation -- Sailor Occupation -- Writer Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Boston, Boston Art Commission, Office of Cultural Affairs, Boston City Hall, Room 716, Boston, Massachusetts 02201 Located Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Between Exeter & Fairfield Streets, Boston, Massachusetts Remarks:  Commissioned by the Back Bay Federation with funds from the George B. Henderson Foundation. Commemorates Samuel Eliot Morison, historian, sailor and two-time Pulitzer prize winning author. Morison researched and personally retraced the route Columbus took to the New World, and later documented Columbus' adventures and translated Columbus' log in his epic work, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea." References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1993. Zoukee, Sophye M., "Adopt-A-Statue Casebook," Boston: City of Boston, 1990. Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988. Illustration:  Image on file. Zoukee, Sophye M., "Adopt-A-Statue Casebook," Boston: City of Boston, 1990, pg. 49. 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 87740053   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 87740053 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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