Tag: Philadelphia
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Philadelphia
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Philadelphia – Claes Oldenburg
In Front of the City Center building downtown Philadelphia. I am a huge fan of Claes Oldenburg. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of a Swedish diplomat stationed in New York. In 1936 his father was transferred to Chicago where Oldenburg grew up, attending the Latin School of Chicago. He studied at Yale University from…
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Philadelphia – Following your spirit
My favorite artists are ones that find their passion and pursue it, with no thought to commercialism, or the sale. The thing that is shunned by the neighbors, until they realize you aren’t a crazy old coot, you have a vision and it is just different. Well I found one of those in Philadelphia. His…
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Philadelphia – Playing Games
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 1417 JFK Boulevard This installation is entitled “Your Move” by Daniel Martinez, Renee Petropoulis and Roger White, it was installed in 1979. While difficult to discern on the ground, the tiles appear to be some sort of game board, not checkers, or chess, but orderly like a game board. The tops of…
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Philadelphia – Eastern State Penitentiary
I am in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My habit in any town is to seek the odd ball. After an entire morning spent at the Philadelphia Art Museum, I headed out to an odd ball spot. Before explaining that however, I must say, that if you have the opportunity to visit the Philadelphia Art Museum, please do.…
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Philadelphia – Public Art As Playgrounds
This is entitled “White Water” by Robinson Frendenthal. It was installed in 1978, and the plaque reads “Installed as a Fine Arts Commitment as required by the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia.” So sad, sounds like the really didn’t want it. Robinson Frendenthal graduated from Penn with a degree in architecture and turned to sculpture…
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Philadelphia – Government of the People
“Government of the People” is located in front of the Municipal Services Building in Philadelphia. A piece by Jacques Lipchitz it was dedicated in 1976. It seeks to portray the artist’s ideas regarding the struggle for freedom and the push to ensure democracy Lipchitz (1891-1973) was a Lithuanian. In 1909 he moved to Paris to study…
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Philadelphia – Maxfield Parish meets Tiffany
Dream Garden is an enormous glass mosaic designed by artist Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), and executed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios, for the lobby of the Curtis Publishing Building in Philadelphia — home of The Ladies’ Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post. The work was commissioned by Edward Bok, Senior Editor of the…
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Philadelphia – Feeling the Love
Okay, you knew this was coming. I am in Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love. City of Brotherly Love isn’t actually a nickname. It is merely a translation of the Greek phrase “brotherly love” from philos “love” and adelphos “brother”. William Penn was an English Quaker, a Latin and Greek scholar who was educated at Oxford.…