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The Swann Memorial Fountain (also known as the Fountain of the Three Rivers) is an art deco fountain sculpture located in the center of Logan Circle in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [ 1 ]
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.
The earliest and most prolific fountain-building organization was the Philadelphia Fountain Society, headed by medical doctor and art collector Wilson Cary Swann (1806–1876) and formally incorporated on April 21, 1869, [18] with the stated mission of developing water fountains and water troughs for Philadelphia.
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Two years later, forty three fountains were managed by the society. Swann handled a large portion of the society's work, and by 1874 it had erected 73 fountains." very choppy, could be blended together with an eye for flow. For instance, why does "Swann handled a large portion of the society's work" come so late in the paragraph. Stuff like that
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 ...
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