Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The young girl leaning on her side against an agitated, water-spouting swan represents the Wissahickon Creek; the mature woman holding the neck of a swan stands for the Schuylkill River; and the male figure, reaching above his head to grasp his bow as a large pike sprays water over him, symbolizes the Delaware River. [3]
The Swann Memorial Fountain (1924), a fountain sculpture by Alexander Stirling Calder that is located in the center of Logan Circle, also known by its historic name Logan Square, in Philadelphia, contains three large Native American figures that symbolize the area's major streams: the Delaware, the Schuylkill, and the Wissahickon. The young ...
Among the sites in its immediate vicinity are the Swann Memorial Fountain at the center of the circle, Parkway Central Library, the former Philadelphia Family Court Building, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Franklin Institute, Moore College of Art and Design, the Roman Catholic Cathedral-Basilica of Sts.
Swann died on March 21, 1876. [7] The Swann Memorial Fountain. In 1924, the Philadelphia Fountain Society built the Swann Memorial Fountain in honor of Dr. Swann. The fountain was designed by sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder and architect Wilson Eyre. The fountain is located in Logan Circle, at the midpoint of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Shakespeare Memorial Logan Circle, in front of Free Library of Philadelphia: 1923-26: Alexander Stirling Calder: Bronze: City of Philadelphia [64] [65] Swann Memorial Fountain Delaware Logan Circle: 1924: Alexander Stirling Calder: Bronze sculpture, granite base
Swann Memorial Fountain (1920–1924), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1892, he returned to Philadelphia and began his career as a sculptor in earnest. His first major commission, won in a national competition, was for a larger-than-life-size statue of Dr. Samuel Gross (1895–97) for the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Calder replicated the pose of Dr. Gross from Eakins's 1875 painting The ...
Swann Memorial Fountain, Logan Square 1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy 39°57′29″N 75°10′14″W / 39.957963°N 75.170616°W / 39.957963; -75.170616 ( Swann Memorial
Logan Square: A landmark adjacent to the Academy that contains the Swann Memorial Fountain. Please Touch Museum, a children's museum that was housed within the Academy before moving in 1981. Wagner Free Institute of Science: A museum of a museum (a Victorian era Natural History museum) located in Philadelphia. Witmer Stone