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The Wedges
Robert Morris,
1970
* geometric forms
* Northeast from Kelly Drive and Sedgely Drive.
* 39.970075,-75.184175 [map] [nearby]
* On the Kelly Drive tour
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+wikipedia.org's Robert Morris page
Abraham Lincoln
Randolph Rogers,
1871
* Statue of Abraham Lincoln
* big
seated person,
chair,
quill, book,
eagles,
federal and city seals
* Moved in January 2002 from the middle of Kelly Drive to the North side.
* inscription:
front:
To Abraham Lincoln from a grateful people
left:
With malice towards none, with charity towards all, with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in
back:
Let us here highly resolve that the government of the people. by the people,
and for the people shall not perish from this earth
right:
I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within the states in
rebellion are and hence forth shall be free
* Kelly Drive and Sedgely Drive.
* 39.969550,-75.184500 [map] [nearby]
* On the Kelly Drive tour
* Exhibits: Moved
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+wikipedia.org's Randolph Rogers page
+wikipedia.org's Abraham Lincoln page
Bath
1500 - 1600 (approximate)
* small
standing
people,
plants,
musical instruments,
goblet
* West end of the Azalea Garden.
Kelly Drive, West of 26th.
* 39.968950,-75.184300 [map] [nearby]
* On the Art Museum Grounds tour
* Exhibits: Unidentified Artists
* See also:
+tclf.org's Azalea Garden page
Silenus and the Infant Bacchus
Praxiteles,
1885 (cast of 400 BC original)
* Statue of Bacchus
and
Silenus
* two people,
one standing,
one carried
* Kelly Drive, past Fairmount.
* 39.968730,-75.182725 [map] [nearby]
* On the Kelly Drive tour
* Exhibits: Religious
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+wikipedia.org's Praxiteles page
+wikipedia.org's Bacchus/Dionysus page
+wikipedia.org's Silenus page
Tiger at Bay
Albino Manca,
1965
* tiger
* Also listed as "Tiger"
* Kelly Drive, just West of Fairmount, across from the Azalea Garden.
* 39.968425,-75.182165 [map] [nearby]
* On the Kelly Drive tour
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+nationalacademy.emuseum.com's Albino Manca page