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The Curse of Billy Penn

Did any of our followers know that there is a statue of William Penn on top of Philadelphia's City Hall?

We recently picked up a few new (to us) copies of Scientific American, a science and technology journal, from a local library (shout out to The Union League!). One issue features the statue of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (though it is important to note that Philadelphia specifically is the ancestral home of the Lenni Lenape or Lennapehoking people), before it was placed on top of Philadelphia City Hall.

William Penn was the product of Alexander Milne Calder, a Scottish-American sculptor, and is 37 feet tall.

For almost 90 years there was an unwritten agreement or understanding that forbade any building in the city from rising above William Penn. This agreement ended when Liberty Place was approved and built in 1987 causing the Curse of Billy Penn to cause disaster on all Philadelphia sports-teams. Pre-1987 Philadelphia sports teams enjoyed a run of success. Post-1987, the curse held on to the city so tightly until the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series in 2008.

How did the curse end? Well it did and then didn't. The Comcast Center was built in 2007 and a few iron workers decided to place a tiny statue (about 4 inches tall) on top to make William Penn, yet again, the tallest figure in the city. The Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series in 2008, breaking the curse.

Then! In 2017, a new building became the tallest building in Philly. A second Comcast Center. Once again, iron workers placed a tiny Billy Penn on top... the Philadelphia Eagle went on to absolutely crush the New England Patriots in the 2018 Super Bowl. Go birds!

Photo credit: Höber, R. “Postcard from R. Höber to Georg Bredig,” April 23, 1935. Papers of Georg and Max Bredig, Box 1, Folder 59. Science History Institute.

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The Scottish Sculptor Alexander Milne Calder was born on August 23rd 1846

Alexander Milne Calder was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of a tombstone carver. He began his career in Scotland, working for sculptor John Rhind, the father of sculptor J. Massey Rhind while attending the Royal Academy in Edinburgh. He moved to London and worked on the Albert Memorial. Calder immigrated to the United States in 1868 and settled in Philadelphia, where he studied with Joseph A. Bailly, and took classes (as would his son Alexander Stirling Calder) with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1873, he was hired by architect John McArthur, Jr. to produce models for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. The commission involved more than 250 pieces in marble and bronze, and took Calder 20 years to complete. That same year, he was commissioned by the Association for Public Art (then the Fairmount Park Art Association) to create an equestrian statue of Major General George Gordon Meade for Fairmount Park. In 1875 he won the competition for the colossal bronze statue of William Penn that was to crown its tower.

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Love and death and love.

Work Song - Hozier //  Memorial To A Marriage - Patricia Cronin // Thus Always to Tyrants - The Oh Hellos // William Warner tomb - Alexander Milne Calder // Hell and You - Amigo the Devil

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Holidays 8.24

Holidays

Bartholomew Fair (UK)

Day of Action for Tolerance & Respect Among Peoples (Argentina)

Flag Day (Liberia)

Flitting Appreciation Day

Gaura Parba (Nepal)

Go Topless Day [also Sunday nearest 8.26]

International Day Against Intolerance, Discrimination and Violence Based on Musical Preferences, Lifestyle and Dress Code (UN)

International Strange Music Day

Knife Day

Kobe Bryant Day (Los Angeles)

Love a Geek Day

Minerva Asteroid Day

National #IAM911 Day

National Danny Day

National Emory Day

National Hydropower Day

National Knife Day

National Maryland Day

National Parks Day (Costa Rica)

National SKAM Artist Day

National Waffle Iron Day

Nostalgia Night (Uruguay)

Osiris Nativity (Ancient Egypt)

Pluto Demotion Day

Sam Spade Day

Schaferlauf (Germany)

Shooting Star Day

Single-Parent Family Day

Television Day Indonesia)

Vesuvius Day

Waffle Iron Day

Waratambar (Thanksgiving; Papua New Guinea)

Wayzgoose (End-of-Summer Party)

Weather Complaint Day

We Love Memoirs Day

William Wilberforce Day

Winter Barley Day (French Republic)

World Catholic, Artificial Intelligence, & Robot Day

World Gujarati Language Day

World Nuclear Disaster Day

World Trainer’s Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Can-Opener Day

Indian Single Malt Day

National Peach Pie Day

National Waffle Day

Independence & Related Days

Russia (from USSR, 1991)

Ukraine (from USSR, 1991)

4th Saturday in August

Bartletide (a.k.a. Burning Bartle; UK) [Saturday closest to 24th]

Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]

Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]

Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]

Speak Kind Words Saturday [Saturday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 24 (3rd Full Week of August)

Giants of Ath Festival (De Ducasse; Belgium) [4th Saturday thru SUnday]

International Bat Nights (thru 8.25) [Last Full Weekend]

Festivals Beginning August 24, 2024

Around The World Cultural Food Festival (Alexandria, Virginia)

Balingup Medieval Carnivale (Balingup, Australia) [thru 8.25]

Banana Split Celebration (Latrobe, Pennsylvania) [thru 8.25]

Beertopia(Palmetto, Florida)

Bloemencorso Vollenhove (Vollenhove, Netherlands)

Boones Mill Apple Festival (Boones Mill, Virginia)

Boston’s Trinidad Style Carnival (Boston, Massachusetts)

Brew at the Zoo (Providence, Rhode Island)

Cleveland Garlic Festival (Cleveland, Ohio) [thru 8.25]

Coastal Craft Beer Festival (Virginia Beach, Virginia)

Delaware Beer, Wine and Spirits Festival (Dover, Delaware)

Farm Fresh Uncorked (Hillsboro, Oregon)

Heirloom Tomato Festival (Sherman, Connecticut)

Independence BrewBQ (Independence, Iowa)

Lake Tahoe Brewfest (Lake Tahoe, California)

Long Night of Museums (Berlin, Germany)

Music City Brewer's Fest (Nashville, Tennessee)

National Championship Chuckwagon Race (Clinton, Arkansas) [thru 9.1]

Olathe Sweet Corn Festival (Olathe, Colorado)

Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival (West Newton, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.28]

Potwin Watermelon Festival (Potwin, Kansas)

Prickly Pear Festival (Superior, Arizona)

Prosser Beer & Whiskey Festival (Prosser, Washington)

Sawtooth Salmon Festival (Stanley, Idaho)

Schubertiade Vorarlberg (Schwarzenberg, Austria) [thru 9.1]

ShakesBeer Fest (Stratford, Connecticut)

Smuttynose Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival (Hampton, New Hampshire)

Swine in the Pines (Macclenny, Florida)

Threshing Bee (Donnelly, Minnesota) [thru 8.25]

Washington County Fair (Pembroke, Maine) [thru 8.25]

Wells Chili-Fest (Wells, Maine)

West Virginia State Honey Festival (Parkersburg, West Virginia) [thru 8.25]

Windsor Fair (Windsor, Maine) [thru 9.2]

Wine Down Summer (West Deptford, New Jersey)

Feast Days

Abbán of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Alexander Milne Calder (Artology)

Alex Colville (Artology)

Arkwright (Positivist; Saint)

A.S. Byatt (Writerism)

Aubrey Beardsley Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Aurea of Ostia (Christian; Saint)

Bartholomew the Apostle (Roman Catholic, Anglican) [mead drinkers, cheese merchants] *

Day of Our Lady of Sanity (Pagan)

Festival of Mania (Ancient Rome)

Gartan (Celtic Book of Days)

The Great In-Betweeny (Muppetism)

Gunnlöð Festival (Norse)

Hannah Frank (Artology)

Irchard (a.k.a. Erthad) of Scotland (Christian; Saint)

Jeanne-Antide Thouret (Christian; Saint)

Jorge Luis Borges (Writerism)

Lavinia Fontana (Artology)

Luna Festival (Ancient Rome)

Maria Micaela Desmaisieres (Christian; Saint)

The Martyrs of Utica (Christian; Martyrs)

Massa Candida (Martyrs of Utica, a.k.a. The White Mass; Christian; Martyrs)

Magal de Touba (Pilgrimmage; Senegal)

Mundus Patet (Roman Harvest Feast)

Mundus Ritual of Ceres (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Nancy Spero (Artology)

Ouen (Audoin or Audoenus) of Rouen (Christian; Saint) [Innkeepers]

Paul Coelho (Writerism)

Pluto Demotion Grieving Day (Pastafarian)

Stephen Fry (Humanism; Writerism)

Willka Raymi (Ancient Incan; Peru)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Alice’s Restaurant (Film; 1969)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Film; 1930)

Buddy the Gee Man (WB LT Cartoon; 1935)

Chop Suey (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1930)

Chronic Town, by R.E.M. (EP; 1982)

The Facts of Life (TV Series; 1979)

Fantastic Voyage (Film; 1966)

The Fox and the Duck (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1945)

Frank, by Squeeze (Album; 1989)

Get Together, recorded by The Youngbloods (Song; 1966)

Grace, by Jeff Buckley (Album; 1994)

Gravity and Grace, by Simone Weil (Philosophical Thoughts; 1947)

They Happytime Murders (Film; 2018)

The Harp in the South, by Ruth Park (Novel; 1948)

Hi-Rise Wise Guys (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1970)

Jay and Silent Bob Stroke Back (Film; 2001)

Look What You Made Me Do, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2017)

Love Me Tender, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1956)

Mess Production (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1945)

Mice in Council (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1934)

Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins (Novel; 2010) [#3]

Oh! The Grandeur, by Andrew Bird with Bowl of Fire (Album; 1999)

Pump Up the Volume (Film; 1990)

Rock ’N’ Roll High School (Film; 1979)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard (Play; 1966)

Saludos Amigos (Disney Animated Film; 1942)

Taran Wanderer, by Lloyd Alexander [Chronicles of Prydain #4]

Tattoo You, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1981)

Teenage Dream, by Katy Perry (Album; 2010)

3 Ring Wing-Ding (WB LT Cartoon; 1968)

Tortilla Soup (Film; 2001)

Violin and Piano Sonata (K526), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Sonata; 1787)

The Witches (Film; 1990)

Today’s Name Days

Bartholomäus, Isolde, Michaela (Austria)

Aurea, Bariša, Bartol, Bartolomej, Bartul, Zlata (Croatia)

Bartoloměj (Czech Republic)

Bartholomæus (Denmark)

Albert, Berta, Pärt, Pärtel (Estonia)

Bertta, Perttu (Finland)

Barthélémy (France)

Bartholomäus, Isolde, Michaela (Germany)

Aitolia, Eftihis (Greece)

Bertalan (Hungary)

Bartolomeo, Genesio, Giuliano (Italy)

Bertolds, Bertrams, Berts, Bertulis, Boleslavs (Latvia)

Alicija, Baltramiejus, Baltrus, Rasuolė, Viešvilas (Lithuania)

Belinda, Bertil (Norway)

Bartłomiej, Cieszymir, Jerzy, Joanna, Malina, Michalina (Poland)

Bartolomej (Slovakia)

Bartolomé, Emilia (Spain)

Bartolomeus (Sweden)

Baird, Bard, Bart, Barth, Bartholomew, Bowen, Evan, Ewan, Keon, Owen (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 237 of 2024; 129 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of Week 34 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 21 (Geng-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 20 Av 5784

Islamic: 18 Safar 1446

J Cal: 27 Purple; Sixday [27 of 30]

Julian: 11 August 2024

Moon: 68%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 12 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Arkwright]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 66 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of August

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 3 of 32)

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Holidays 8.24

Holidays

Bartholomew Fair (UK)

Day of Action for Tolerance & Respect Among Peoples (Argentina)

Flag Day (Liberia)

Flitting Appreciation Day

Gaura Parba (Nepal)

Go Topless Day [also Sunday nearest 8.26]

International Day Against Intolerance, Discrimination and Violence Based on Musical Preferences, Lifestyle and Dress Code (UN)

International Strange Music Day

Knife Day

Kobe Bryant Day (Los Angeles)

Love a Geek Day

Minerva Asteroid Day

National #IAM911 Day

National Danny Day

National Emory Day

National Hydropower Day

National Knife Day

National Maryland Day

National Parks Day (Costa Rica)

National SKAM Artist Day

National Waffle Iron Day

Nostalgia Night (Uruguay)

Osiris Nativity (Ancient Egypt)

Pluto Demotion Day

Sam Spade Day

Schaferlauf (Germany)

Shooting Star Day

Single-Parent Family Day

Television Day Indonesia)

Vesuvius Day

Waffle Iron Day

Waratambar (Thanksgiving; Papua New Guinea)

Wayzgoose (End-of-Summer Party)

Weather Complaint Day

We Love Memoirs Day

William Wilberforce Day

Winter Barley Day (French Republic)

World Catholic, Artificial Intelligence, & Robot Day

World Gujarati Language Day

World Nuclear Disaster Day

World Trainer’s Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Can-Opener Day

Indian Single Malt Day

National Peach Pie Day

National Waffle Day

Independence & Related Days

Russia (from USSR, 1991)

Ukraine (from USSR, 1991)

4th Saturday in August

Bartletide (a.k.a. Burning Bartle; UK) [Saturday closest to 24th]

Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]

Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]

Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]

Speak Kind Words Saturday [Saturday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 24 (3rd Full Week of August)

Giants of Ath Festival (De Ducasse; Belgium) [4th Saturday thru SUnday]

International Bat Nights (thru 8.25) [Last Full Weekend]

Festivals Beginning August 24, 2024

Around The World Cultural Food Festival (Alexandria, Virginia)

Balingup Medieval Carnivale (Balingup, Australia) [thru 8.25]

Banana Split Celebration (Latrobe, Pennsylvania) [thru 8.25]

Beertopia(Palmetto, Florida)

Bloemencorso Vollenhove (Vollenhove, Netherlands)

Boones Mill Apple Festival (Boones Mill, Virginia)

Boston’s Trinidad Style Carnival (Boston, Massachusetts)

Brew at the Zoo (Providence, Rhode Island)

Cleveland Garlic Festival (Cleveland, Ohio) [thru 8.25]

Coastal Craft Beer Festival (Virginia Beach, Virginia)

Delaware Beer, Wine and Spirits Festival (Dover, Delaware)

Farm Fresh Uncorked (Hillsboro, Oregon)

Heirloom Tomato Festival (Sherman, Connecticut)

Independence BrewBQ (Independence, Iowa)

Lake Tahoe Brewfest (Lake Tahoe, California)

Long Night of Museums (Berlin, Germany)

Music City Brewer's Fest (Nashville, Tennessee)

National Championship Chuckwagon Race (Clinton, Arkansas) [thru 9.1]

Olathe Sweet Corn Festival (Olathe, Colorado)

Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival (West Newton, Pennsylvania) [thru 9.28]

Potwin Watermelon Festival (Potwin, Kansas)

Prickly Pear Festival (Superior, Arizona)

Prosser Beer & Whiskey Festival (Prosser, Washington)

Sawtooth Salmon Festival (Stanley, Idaho)

Schubertiade Vorarlberg (Schwarzenberg, Austria) [thru 9.1]

ShakesBeer Fest (Stratford, Connecticut)

Smuttynose Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival (Hampton, New Hampshire)

Swine in the Pines (Macclenny, Florida)

Threshing Bee (Donnelly, Minnesota) [thru 8.25]

Washington County Fair (Pembroke, Maine) [thru 8.25]

Wells Chili-Fest (Wells, Maine)

West Virginia State Honey Festival (Parkersburg, West Virginia) [thru 8.25]

Windsor Fair (Windsor, Maine) [thru 9.2]

Wine Down Summer (West Deptford, New Jersey)

Feast Days

Abbán of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Alexander Milne Calder (Artology)

Alex Colville (Artology)

Arkwright (Positivist; Saint)

A.S. Byatt (Writerism)

Aubrey Beardsley Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Aurea of Ostia (Christian; Saint)

Bartholomew the Apostle (Roman Catholic, Anglican) [mead drinkers, cheese merchants] *

Day of Our Lady of Sanity (Pagan)

Festival of Mania (Ancient Rome)

Gartan (Celtic Book of Days)

The Great In-Betweeny (Muppetism)

Gunnlöð Festival (Norse)

Hannah Frank (Artology)

Irchard (a.k.a. Erthad) of Scotland (Christian; Saint)

Jeanne-Antide Thouret (Christian; Saint)

Jorge Luis Borges (Writerism)

Lavinia Fontana (Artology)

Luna Festival (Ancient Rome)

Maria Micaela Desmaisieres (Christian; Saint)

The Martyrs of Utica (Christian; Martyrs)

Massa Candida (Martyrs of Utica, a.k.a. The White Mass; Christian; Martyrs)

Magal de Touba (Pilgrimmage; Senegal)

Mundus Patet (Roman Harvest Feast)

Mundus Ritual of Ceres (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Nancy Spero (Artology)

Ouen (Audoin or Audoenus) of Rouen (Christian; Saint) [Innkeepers]

Paul Coelho (Writerism)

Pluto Demotion Grieving Day (Pastafarian)

Stephen Fry (Humanism; Writerism)

Willka Raymi (Ancient Incan; Peru)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Alice’s Restaurant (Film; 1969)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Film; 1930)

Buddy the Gee Man (WB LT Cartoon; 1935)

Chop Suey (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1930)

Chronic Town, by R.E.M. (EP; 1982)

The Facts of Life (TV Series; 1979)

Fantastic Voyage (Film; 1966)

The Fox and the Duck (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1945)

Frank, by Squeeze (Album; 1989)

Get Together, recorded by The Youngbloods (Song; 1966)

Grace, by Jeff Buckley (Album; 1994)

Gravity and Grace, by Simone Weil (Philosophical Thoughts; 1947)

They Happytime Murders (Film; 2018)

The Harp in the South, by Ruth Park (Novel; 1948)

Hi-Rise Wise Guys (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1970)

Jay and Silent Bob Stroke Back (Film; 2001)

Look What You Made Me Do, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2017)

Love Me Tender, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1956)

Mess Production (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1945)

Mice in Council (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1934)

Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins (Novel; 2010) [#3]

Oh! The Grandeur, by Andrew Bird with Bowl of Fire (Album; 1999)

Pump Up the Volume (Film; 1990)

Rock ’N’ Roll High School (Film; 1979)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard (Play; 1966)

Saludos Amigos (Disney Animated Film; 1942)

Taran Wanderer, by Lloyd Alexander [Chronicles of Prydain #4]

Tattoo You, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1981)

Teenage Dream, by Katy Perry (Album; 2010)

3 Ring Wing-Ding (WB LT Cartoon; 1968)

Tortilla Soup (Film; 2001)

Violin and Piano Sonata (K526), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Sonata; 1787)

The Witches (Film; 1990)

Today’s Name Days

Bartholomäus, Isolde, Michaela (Austria)

Aurea, Bariša, Bartol, Bartolomej, Bartul, Zlata (Croatia)

Bartoloměj (Czech Republic)

Bartholomæus (Denmark)

Albert, Berta, Pärt, Pärtel (Estonia)

Bertta, Perttu (Finland)

Barthélémy (France)

Bartholomäus, Isolde, Michaela (Germany)

Aitolia, Eftihis (Greece)

Bertalan (Hungary)

Bartolomeo, Genesio, Giuliano (Italy)

Bertolds, Bertrams, Berts, Bertulis, Boleslavs (Latvia)

Alicija, Baltramiejus, Baltrus, Rasuolė, Viešvilas (Lithuania)

Belinda, Bertil (Norway)

Bartłomiej, Cieszymir, Jerzy, Joanna, Malina, Michalina (Poland)

Bartolomej (Slovakia)

Bartolomé, Emilia (Spain)

Bartolomeus (Sweden)

Baird, Bard, Bart, Barth, Bartholomew, Bowen, Evan, Ewan, Keon, Owen (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 237 of 2024; 129 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of Week 34 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 21 (Geng-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 20 Av 5784

Islamic: 18 Safar 1446

J Cal: 27 Purple; Sixday [27 of 30]

Julian: 11 August 2024

Moon: 68%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 12 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Arkwright]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 66 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of August

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 3 of 32)

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Born in Philadelphia on this day in 1898, Alexander Calder was third in a line of distinguished sculptors. The Swann Memorial Fountain in Logan Circle was created in 1924 by his father, Alexander Stirling Calder, and on top of City Hall is the thirty-six-foot-high statue of William Penn by Calder’s grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder.

Alexander Calder produced his first abstract moving sculptures, which Marcel Duchamp dubbed “mobiles,” in 1931. Using cutout organic forms in sheet metal, Calder created floating three-dimensional worlds in constant flux. The large mobile "Ghost" now hangs in our Great Stair Hall.

"Ghost," 1964, by Alexander Calder © 2021 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 

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Devil Fish Alexander Calder, 1937 Shared via #WikiArtApp (August 23, 1846 – June 4, 1923)

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I never get tired of seeing this building. On top, that's a 63 foot statue of William Penn, made by Alexander Milne Calder (not to be confused with his son or grandson, both so Alexander Calders with differentmiddle/nicknames), it was put up there in 1894! The building was constructed from 1871-1901, it's amazing. #CityHall #PhiladelphiaCityHall #Philadelphia #Philly #WilliamPenn #Buildings #AlexanderMilneCalder #ArchitectureHistory #ArtHistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CioESPwMbeV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A Christmas Story Leg Lamp (canon)

A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson

A.A. Milne's Honey Dipper

ABBA's Champagne Glasses

AFV Video Screen

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ATLAS Android Test Subject

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Aaron Anderson’s Oars

Aaron Swartz's Computer Mouse

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Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani's Walking Stick

Abebe Bikila's Jersey

Abigail Williams' Pendent

Abing's Erhu

Abraham's Sapphire

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Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy Chart

Abraham Suydam's Golden Pocketwatch

Abraham Ulrikib's Caribou Pelt

Absorbent Photo Album and Camera

Abu al-Qasim's Bellows

Abu al-Qasim's Forceps

Abu Hurairah's Tombstone

Achilles' Arrow *

Accordion from Kunstkamera

Acme Police Whistle

Ada Lovelace's Dress

Adad-nirari I’s Axe Blade

Adam Lanza's Gun

Adam Rainer's Measuring Tape

Adam Sandler's Idea Pad

Adelard of Bath’s Abacus

Adolf Eichmann's Eagle Insignia Badge

Adolf Frederick's Silver Cutlery Set

Adolf Hitler's Colored Pencils

Adolf Hitler's Microphone *

Adolf Slaby's Snuff Box

Adolphe Chaillet's "Shelby" Bulbs *

Adolphe Dugleres' Menu

Adrian Hill's Sketchpad

Aegean Sails

Aegicoros' Goblet

Aesop's Cloak

Aesop's Grapevine

Aesop's Pendant

Aesop’s Rope

Aeschylus' Turtle Shell

African Ngil Fang Mask *

African Tribal Elephant Tusk *

African Witch Doctor's Staff

Agamemnon's Mycenaean Bronze Sword

Agatha Christie's Car

Agatha Christie's Typewriter *

Agatha Christie's Wedding Ring

Agathodaemon's Natron

Agent Aden Taylor's God-Tier Clock

Agent Aden Taylor's God Tier Outfit

Aggressive Metal Lunchbox

Agnodice’s Tunic

Aguara's Carob

Ahmad Shah Durrani's Pesh-Kabz

Ahmose I’s Armband

Aileen Wuornos' Black Ledger

Aimée Crocker's Hat and Fur Stole

Air from the Great Stink of 1858

Air Raid Siren from Pearl Harbor

Air-Raid Skeet Thrower

Airbrushes from Disney Studios *

Akbar the Great's Water Container

Akira Kurosawa's Mao Hat

Akira Toriyama's Original Pen

Aki Ra’s Landmine Casings

Alain Robert’s Bag of Chalk

Albert Fish's Whip of Nails

Al Capone's Fedora

Al Capone's Machine Guns *

Al Smith's 1928 Campaign Badges

Aladdin's Lamp

Alan Hale Jr.'s Skipper Hat

Alan Seeger's Helmet

Alan Turing's Typewriter

Alan Wake's Flashlight

Alarm Clock

Albert Abrams’ Vials

Albert Anastasia's Barber Shop Chair

Albert Bandura's Bobo Doll

Albert Butz's Glasses *

Albert Camus' Coffee Cup

Albert Einstein's Bridge Device *

Albert Einstein's Chalk

Albert Einstein's Comb *

Albert Stevens’ Paintbrush

Albert Tirrell’s Razor

Alberto Burri's Sacking and Red

Albertus Magnus' Quill Pen

Alboin’s Skull Cup

Albrecht Dürer's Rhinoceros Horn

Self-portrait at 26" href="/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer%27s_%27%27Self-portrait_at_26%27%27">Albrecht Dürer's Self-portrait at 26 *

Alchemist's Curse

Alcmaeon of Croton's Ring

Aldrich Ames' Chalk

Aldus Manutius’ Vellum

Aleijadinho’s Palanquin

Aleister Crowley's Ruby Studded Universal Hexagram Necklace *

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Keisaku

Tetris" href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Serebrov%27s_Nintendo_Game_Boy_%26_Copy_of_%27%27Tetris%27%27">Aleksandr Serebrov's Nintendo Game Boy & Copy of Tetris

Alessandro Volta's Biscuit Bin *

Alessandro Volta's Lab Coat and Goggles *

Alethiometer

Alex Mercer's Jacket

Alex Sander's Scourge

Alexander of Abonoteichus' Grimorie

Alexander Alekhine's Chess Set *

Alexander Bain's Fax Machine

Alexander Calder's First Mobile

Alexander D'Agapeyeff's Telegraph

Alexander Fleming's Beaker

Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Wire

Alexander the Great's Bronze Breastplate

Alexander the Great's Xyston

Alexander of Greece's Pocket Watch

Alexander Grey's Owl Pendant

Alexander Hamilton's & Aaron Burr's Dueling Pistols

Alexander Herrmann's Gold Watch

Alexander Hermann's Mustache Scissors *

Alexander Keith Jr’s Barrel

Alexander Litvinenko's Tea Pot

Alexander Morison's Top Hat

Alexander Polyhistor's Animal Fiber Sponge

Alexander Steinert's Grand Piano

Alexander von Humboldt's Fern

Alexander Wilson's Falconry Glove

Alexandre Étienne Choron’s Menu

Alexey Leonov's Near the Moon

Alexis Soyer's Cutting Board

Alexis St. Martin's Musket Powder

Al-Farabi's Shahrud

Alfred Adler’s Coat Rack

Alfred Dreyfus' Sword Hilt *

Alfred George Hinds' Prison Uniform

Alfréd Hajós' Measuring Tape

Alfred Hitchcock's Metal Pinwheel (canon)  

Alfred Kinsey's Abacus

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Bronze Statue of Chiron

Alfred's Monarch Ice Skates

Alfred Nobel's Box Detonator

Alfred Nobel's Curtains

Alfred Packer's Gold

Alfred Snoxall's Lee-Enfield Rifle

Alfred N. Stevenson's Military Helmet

Alfred Stieglitz's Tripod

Alfred Watkin’s Theodolite

Alfred Wegener's Parka

Algie the Pig

Al Herpin's Rocking Chair

Al Hirschfeld’s Chair and Lamp

Ali Asghar Borujerdi's Prayer Beads

Alice Manfield’s Trekking Pole

Alice Bailey's Necklace

Alice's Crown

Alice Stebbins Wells’ Police Badge

Alien's Device Prop

Allan Pinkerton's Briefcase

Allan W. E. Jones' Underwear

Alleyway from Kowloon Walled City

Alliance Tenna-Scope TV Signal Booster

All Hallow's Eve Pumpkin

Alphonse Bertillon's Shaving Mirror

Alphonse Cahagnet's Magnets

Alpine Brandy Rescue Cask *

Aloysius 'Alois' Alzheimer's Eye Glasses

Alpharts Tod's Hauberk

Altaïr's Hidden Blade

Aluminum Bluthner Piano *

Álvaro Obregón's Right Arm

Alvin C. Graves' Tie

Alvin C. York's .45 Colt Automatic Pistol

Alvin C. York's Medal

Alvin Straight’s Riding Lawn Mower

Alyattes of Lydia's Electrum Coins

Amanda Palmer's Ukulele

Amanda Todd's Flashcards

Amasa Coleman Lee's Porch Swing

Amaterasu's Yasakani no Magatama

Amazon Fish Tank *

The Amber Room

Amber Sphere *

Amber Spyglass

Ambrose Bierce's Skull

Ambrose Burnside's Jacket

Amelia Earhart's Goggles

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B

Amenemhat III’s Pyramidion

Amenemhat III's Sistrum

Amenemhat IV’s Sphinx

"American Idiot" Stage Set

Amerigo Vespucci's Armor Plate

Amityville House Windows

Ammunition from the USS Maine

Amphion's Lyre

Amulet of Hapi

Amy Lowell's Cigar

Amy Winehouse's Microphone

An Zhengwen's Brush

Anasazi Rope

Anatoly Onoprienko's Sawed off Shotgun

Anatomical Model

Anaxagoras' Krater

Anaximander's Sundial

André the Giant's Wrestling Singlet

André Citroën's Double Helical Gear

André de Toth’s 3-D Glasses

Andre Devigny's Bedding and Lantern

André Devigny Spoon

André-Marie Ampère’s Notebook

André Martinet's Phonograph

Andrea Aguyar’s Lasso

Andrea del Verrocchio's Workshop

Andreas Mihavecz’s Prison Cell

Andreas Vesalius' Watering Can

Andrew Borden's Couch

Andy Dufresne’s Rock Hammer

Andrew Jackson's Keg of Ale

Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World

Andy Kaufman's Bowl & Spoon

Andy Kaufman's Sunglasses

Andy Lambros' Fishing Pole

Andy the Clown’s Costume

Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans

Andy Warhol's Concept Dress Mannequin

Andy Warhol's Hairbrush

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych

Anfo Merc's Electric Guitar and Battery Amplifier

Angela Cavallo's Car Fender

Angelo Faticoni's Chair

Angelo Moriondo’s Espresso Machine

Angelo Siciliano's Workout Trunks *

Angel Wings from the Pulse Funeral

Angkor Wat Piece of Vishnu

Ankou's Horseshoe

Angry Birdcage *

Animatronic Presidents from the "Hall of Presidents" in Walt Disney World

Anita King’s Lighter

Ann Corio's Bra

Ann Faraday's Jacket

Anna Baker's Wedding Dress

Anna Bertha Ludwig's Wedding Ring

Anna de Coligny's Crown

Anna Pavlova's Swan-Feather Fan

Annabelle Doll

Anne Boleyn's Pearl Necklace and Ornate B

Anne Bonny's Cutlass *

Anne Frank's Diary and Ribbon Bookmark

Anne Greene's Noose

Anne Sullivan’s Doll

Annette Funicello's Beach Ball *

Annie Edson Taylor's Barrel *

Annie Fox's Purple Heart

Annie Oakley’s Bonnet

Ansel Adams' Camera

Antarctic Whaling Station Camp

Anthony Bishop's Manuscript *

Anthony Salerno's Fedora *

Anthony Spilotro's Casino Tokens

Anthony Stewart/Rupert Giles' Glasses

Anti-Boarding Netting from the Mary Rose

Antique Candy Box

Antoine Lavosier's Candle

Antoine Lavosier's Microscope

Anton Aicher's Marionette Handle

Anton Chekov’s Pince-Nez's

Antoni Gaudí’s Chisel and Trencadís

Antonietta Dell'Era's Ballet Slippers

Antonio Stradivari's Violin Strings *

Antonio Vivaldi’s Aspergillum

Anton Praetorius' Hynm Book

Anubis Canopic Jar

Anubis Shrine Pyramid *

Anuket's Necklace

Aphrodite's Ankle Bracelet

Aphrodite's Girdle *

Aphrodite's Hairbrush

Apple of Discord

Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Hoax Set *

Apollo 11 Moon Rock *

Apollo 13 Command Module

Apollo 15 Geologic Hammer and Falcon Feather

Apollonius of Tyana's Amulet

Apollo of Veii's Arms

Apollo’s and Artemis’ Bows

Apollo's Sandals

Apophis Statuette

Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s Goggles

Aquilas from the Battle of Teutoburg Forest

Arachne's Loom

Arceus' Plates

Archibald McIndoe's Saline Bathtub

Archibald Spooner's Cloak

Archilochus' Aulos

Archimedes's Bathtub

Arc Light from the Iroquois Theater

Ares' Gauntlets

Aretha Franklin's Spotlight

The Argo

Ariadne's Ball of Thread

Aristotle's Lyre

Aron Ralston’s Pocketknife

Artemisia II of Caria's Chalice

Armand David's Glasses & Zucchetto

Armand Guillaumin's Soleil couchant à Ivry

Armando Socarras Ramirez's Shirt

Arne Larsson's Pacemaker

Arrow of Alan Gua

Arrow of Time

Artemis' Cloak Pin

Arthur Aitken's Pith Helmet

Arthur Aston's Wooden Leg

Arthur Blessitt’s Cross

Arthur C. Clarke's Telescope

Arthur Claude Darby's Rope

Arthur Conan Doyle's Disintegration Machine

Arthur Conan Doyle's Fairy Notebook

Arthur Conan Doyle's Pipe

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Arthur Evans' Magnifying Glass

Arthur Galston's Soil Knife

Arthur Rostron’s Loving Cup

Arthur Stace’s Chalk

Arthur Wellesley's Boots

Arthur Wynne's Journal

Arthur Zimmermann's Ticker-tape Machine

Artie Moore's Headphones

Artie Shaw's Clarinet *

Asclepius' Offering Bowl

Ash Williams’ Double-Barrel "Boomstick"

Ashes from the 1925 Madame Tussaud Fire

Ashley Revell's Tuxedo

Ashurbanipal's Crown

Ashoka's Hell

Ashoka's Pillars

Assorted Herbs (Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme)

Asphyxiating Blackboard Erasers

Atalanta's Spear

Æthelred the Unready's Crown

Athena's Owl Pendant

Athena Parthenos

Athena's Aegis

Athena’s Breastplate

Athens Caryatid

Atlanta Ripper's Balaclava

Atlantean Crystal Pendant

Atlas' Globe

Atomic Bombs from The Dayton Project

Atticus Finch's Pocketwatch

Attila the Hun's Battle Helmet (canon)

Attila the Hun's Swaddling Blanket *

Audio-Healing Tuning Fork *

August Bier’s Needle

August Musger's Projector

August Natterer's Bible

Auguste Escoffier’s Tasting Spoons

Auguste Piccard's Gondola

Auguste Renoir's Young Girls at the Piano *

Auguste Rodin's Hammer and Chisel *

Auguste Rodin's Gateway to Hell

Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss

Auguste Rodin's Rasp

Augustina de Aragon's Cannon

Augustin-Jean Fresnel's Magnifying Glass *

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle’s Touch-Me-Not Plant

Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Double Eagle Gold Coin

Aung San's Pinhole Camera

Aurora's Torch

Australian Boomerang

Automatic Trash-Disposal Waste Bin

Automatic Vaccum *

Autumn Leaves

Avatar Relics from The Last Airbender

Axe Ring

Axel Erlandson's Sycamore Seeds

Axeman of New Orleans' Phonograph

Ayrton Senna's Race Suit

Azletar (by technicality)

Aztec Bloodstone *

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The Scottish Sculptor Alexander Milne Calder was born on August 23rd 1846

Alexander Milne Calder was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of a tombstone carver. He began his career in Scotland, working for sculptor John Rhind, the father of sculptor J. Massey Rhind while attending the Royal Academy in Edinburgh. He moved to London and worked on the Albert Memorial. Calder immigrated to the United States in 1868 and settled in Philadelphia, where he studied with Joseph A. Bailly, and took classes (as would his son Alexander Stirling Calder) with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1873, he was hired by architect John McArthur, Jr. to produce models for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. The commission involved more than 250 pieces in marble and bronze, and took Calder 20 years to complete. That same year, he was commissioned by the Association for Public Art (then the Fairmount Park Art Association) to create an equestrian statue of Major General George Gordon Meade for Fairmount Park. In 1875 he won the competition for the colossal bronze statue of William Penn that was to crown its tower.

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A World in Motion: Artist and Sculptor Alexander Calder

By Teresa Erskine Roth

One of the most acclaimed and influential sculptors of the 20th century, Alexander Calder is most renowned for his invention of the mobile, an abstract sculpture that moves. In addition to mobiles, Calder made wire sculpture, static sculpture called stabiles, toys, theatrical sets, and paintings in oil and gouache, as well as jewelry and numerous household objects. The artist, who owned a home and studio in Roxbury, Connecticut, for more than 40 years, created over 22,000 works in the course of his life and is considered a pioneer of kinetic art.

Alexander Calder, The Tulip, mobile, painted sheet metal and wire, 1967 – Yale University Art Gallery

Early Life and a Career’s Beginning

Calder was born in 1898 in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, to a family of artists. His grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, and his father, Alexander Stirling Calder, were both classically trained sculptors, and Calder’s mother, Nanette Lederer Calder, was a painter. Instead of pursuing art directly after high school, Calder attended Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, and graduated in 1919 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He held a variety of engineering jobs over the next few years but found none satisfying. In the fall of 1923 he began to attend drawing and painting classes at the Art Students League in New York. A year later, the National Police Gazette hired him as an illustrator. There, he drew sporting events and city scenes. On one assignment, Calder received a pass to the Barnum & Bailey Circus. His experience of the circus performances would inspire much of his later interpretation of movement.

In the summer of 1926, Calder moved to Paris, the center of the Western art world and home to a vibrant community of artists interested in exploring new modes and methods of art. Soon after his arrival, Calder invented a new mode of sculpting in wire, a material he had used since childhood. In this radically new form of sculpture, expressive lines suggested volume and movement. Alongside the development of wire sculpture, Calder created the Cirque Calder, a small-scale circus designed to be manipulated by Calder in elaborate performances that could last several hours. Using wire, wood, fabric, and found materials, Calder constructed ingenious figures that he could propel into motion. Calder had a certain amount of control over the performance, but he purposely left some things to chance. He activated the acrobats, for instance, but there was no guarantee they would land on their feet. Calder’s lively performances of Cirque Calder engaged audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.

Marriage and a Growing Reputation for Pushing Art’s Boundaries

On a transatlantic voyage in 1929, Calder met Louisa James, a grand-niece of Henry James, the great novelist, and his brother, William James, the psychologist and philosopher. Calder and Louisa married at her family home in Concord, Massachusetts, in January of 1931 and soon settled in Paris.

In 1930, after a visit to Piet Mondrian’s studio in Paris, Calder shifted from figurative work to abstraction. His new abstract sculptures in wire retained the sense of action of his wire figures, but he also began to interpret motion as an abstraction by itself, as energy in space rather than the actions of a particular subject. Calder then added some articulation to these works, animating the wire constructions by means of cranks or motors, so that they could change position in space.

Photograph of Alexander Calder’s Mobile, ca. 1935 – Yale University Art Gallery

In the fall of 1931, the French artist Marcel Duchamp visited Calder’s studio and was captivated by the utterly original motorized objects. Duchamp suggested that Calder call his new objects “mobiles,” a pun in French that means both “that which moves” and “motive.” Duchamp arranged for Calder to have his first exhibition of mobiles at the Galerie Vignon, Paris, in February of 1932. After seeing the mobiles, Calder’s friend and fellow abstract artist Jean Arp wryly commented that he might call his static wire abstractions “stabiles.” Calder immediately adopted the word.

In a further leap, Calder began to create mobiles meant to be suspended from the ceiling, beginning with the striking and unique Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere of 1932-33. The artist began to move away from the motorized motions of his earliest works in favor of creations that responded to environmental conditions, such as currents of air, changes in humidity, or human intervention.

A Home in Connecticut, Great Fame, and Later Life

In 1933, concerned about the rise of Fascism in Europe, the Calders decided to leave Paris for the United States. After searching the countryside around New York, they bought a 17th-century farmhouse in Roxbury. Inspired by the open space of his Roxbury property, Calder began to create works especially for the outdoors. The family also had homes in New York and France, but Calder retained a lifelong connection with Roxbury and produced numerous works in the studio on the property. For some of the larger works that required specialized fabrication, he worked with shops and artisans from the extensive metalworking sector of central Connecticut. Calder’s works are found in many museums and private collections in Connecticut, and Hartford‘s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art began collecting his work in the 1930s.

Alexander Calder, Gallows and Lollipops, painted steel, 1960 – Yale University Art Gallery

In 1937, Calder completed Devil Fish, the first large-scale stabile enlarged from a small model, a method that Calder would employ to produce increasingly ambitious monumental sculptures out of steel plates designed to be bolted together. Later that year, the Calders returned to Europe for several months. While staying in Paris, Calder created Mercury Fountain for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair, where it was displayed in front of Pablo Picasso’s famous protest painting depicting the bombing deaths of innocent Basque civilians, Guernica. An overtly political work, Mercury Fountain used flowing mercury from the mines of Almaden, a hotly contested territory in the Spanish Civil War.

After the end of World War II, the Calders began to spend more of their time in Europe, particularly France. In 1953, they acquired a house in Saché, a tiny town on the Loire. By the 1960s, the Calders spent most of the year at their home in Saché, and with the assistance of a nearby ironworks Calder began to fabricate his large-scale works in France. Many of these monumental sculptures were public commissions designed for busy urban sites, such as Man (installed in Montreal), La Grande Vitesse (Grand Rapids, Michigan), and Stegosaurus (on the Alfred E. Burr Memorial Mall next to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut). Their scale, their eye-catching shapes and colors, and the lyrical way they complement their surroundings make these ambitious sculptures some of Calder’s most recognizable and beloved works.

By the time of his death in 1976, Calder was a well-known, successful artist whose work was included in major museum collections and arrayed in public parks and plazas all over the world.

Teresa Erskine Roth wrote about art history and her publications included the essay “Synthetic Statues,” which appeared in Calder: Sculptor of Air (2009).

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/a-world-in-motion-artist-and-sculptor-alexander-calder/

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Field Trip of the Dead – Little Monsters (BFI London Film Festival Review)

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Photos: The William Penn statue restoration is complete

Good as new!

It took a few weeks—and 800 man-hours—but Billy Penn is back and looking fresh as ever.

Moorland Studios just completed its latest conservation of the William Penn statue that sits atop Philadelphia’s City Hall. The endeavor involved about a month of washing, buffing, and restoring of the 37-foot-tall bronze statue, which has only had about three other baths in its 125-year history.

Moorland Studios has led all four conservations for the statue. This time around, the team was tasked with using 1,200 gallons of high-pressure water to remove pollutants that had accumulated over the past 14 years. They then had to strip the existing wax from the statue’s surface and add a new coat of wax to fill spots that had suffered from erosion.

The statue was designed by Alexander Milne Calder. It’s a jaw-dropping 53,348 pounds and was cast in 47 sections so that it could be assembled piece by piece onto the top of City Hall. It took two years to install the sculpture, and today it remains the tallest statue atop a building in the world.

The scaffolding, however, won’t be taken down until late July. The city is still replacing the caulk in the tower dome to prevent water from seeping through, according to the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy.

Here are some super close-up views of William Penn’s makeover, in before-after photos.

Moorland Studios also documented the long process on its Instagram account. Even one of the city’s falcons checked in on the progress.

Scaffolding on its way#williampenn #sculptureconservation #

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Anatomy of a sculpture. An interior view of the face of The William Penn Statue. Followed by the same view from the outside. #sculpture #sculptureconservation #bronzecastings #figurativesculpture #cityhallphiladelphia #williampennstatue #calder #caldersculpture

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Not everyday you have the opportunity to see a falcon just hanging out on the head of an eagle. A fun day at work.#falcons #philadelphiacityhall #alexandermilncalder

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Scaffolding started coming down today. A great project on a great monument. We are grateful to have been the ones taking care of this icon of the city of Philadelphia the state of Pennsylvania. #williampenn #williampennstatue #philadelphiacityhall #conservation #fineartconservation

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With scaffolding up, William Penn statue restoration begins [Curbed Philly]

City Hall’s William Penn statue cleaning to begin in May [Curbed Philly]

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Up until recently Billy Penn hadn't taken a bath for 12 years! The sculpture that sits atop City Hall recently underwent a 6-week restoration process. Sculptor Alexander Milne Calder created a small model of William Penn (found in our American Art galleries) in preparation for the large sculpture atop City Hall.

“Model for the Statue of William Penn,” 1889, after original 1886, by Alexander Milne Calder (On loan from Mr. and Mrs. Set Charles Momjian)

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The 37 ft. tall statue of William Penn above City Hall was sculpted by Alexander Milne Calder 📸 @elevationonedrone . . . . . (at Philadelphia City Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQG0-nBhEvB/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Soul Escaping the Tomb, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Palladium Toned Kallitype – New Photo

  I’ve recently added a new palladium-toned kallitype – Soul Escaping the Tomb, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Palladium Toned Kallitype – to my website at https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/soul-escaping-the-tomb-laurel-hill-philadelphia-pa-palladium-toned-kallitype/ Alexander Milne Calder’s sculpture of the soul escaping the tomb on William Warner’s grave in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania This photograph is printed using the late 19th-century […] from Beautiful Flower Pictures Blog https://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/soul-escaping-the-tomb-laurel-hill-cemetery-philadelphia-pennsylvania-palladium-toned-kallitype-new-photo/