Penn's Public Art - Short Tour Preview

Located at: 20-22 39th Street - South Wall

Gross Area (square feet): 48 feet by 34 feet

Year Built: 2008

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Located at: the North wall of Chestnut Hall power house, 3900 Chestnut Street

Gross Area (square feet): 43 feet by 43 feet

Year Built: 1986

Architect: Eoin Kinnarney

Located: 40th Street, between Walnut Street and Locust Walk

Irregular shaped concrete and steel

Gross Area (square feet): 10 feet by 160 feet by 15 feet

Architect: Andrea Blum

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Located at: Schattner Building, Fonseca Garden

Gross Area (square feet): 7 feet

Year Built: 2004

Architect: Ulrich Pakker

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Located at: Evans Building Courtyard

Painted, red brown. 1,500 pound sculpture

Gross Area (square feet): 16 feet by 8 feet

Year Built: 1978

Architect: Shaw (M.D.): Ernest

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Located at: Locust Walk at 39th Street

This painted Cor-ten steel sculpture is red

Gross Area (square feet): 45 feet in height by 34 feet wide by 67 feet irregular depth. 5 major cylindrical units, 12 feet diameter sections.

Year Built: 1974

Architect: Alexander Liberman

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Located at: Pottruck Health & Fitness Center: 3701 Walnut Street

The Eight: 1930. The shell was designed as a light fixture and its overall design resembles a barracuda with coxwain at the tail end'. 'McKenzie was said to have rendered the crew individually.The Modern Discus Thrower: 1926. McKenzie selected a pose that shows 'the same moment of the throw as taken by Myron, the pause between the backward andforward swings'. Posed by Hector MacDonald, Penn student, at Ipswitch, Massachusetts,.The Plunger: 1925. Posed for by Mifflin Armstrong, a Penn swimmer. These three pieces were installed in the Pottruck Center in 2002.

Year Built: 2002

Architect: R. Tait McKenzie

Located at: Penn Veterinary Medicine at 39th StreetPenn Veterinary Medicine at 39th Street

Painted plate steel: red, green, yellow, black. 1,200 pounds

Gross Area (square feet): 120 inches by 90 inches by 96 inches

Year Built: 1982

Architect: Billie Lawless

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Located at: Steinberg Conference Center

Cast Bronze with Patina finish. 460 lbs. #1 of edition of 5. Cast at Empire Bronze Art Foundry, Long Island City, New York (Brian Ramnarine 718-361-3006). Dedicated May, 1989.

Gross Area (square feet): 110 and a half inches in Height by 63 inches in Length by 11 and a half inches in Depth

Year Built: 1986

Architect: Thom Cooney Crawford

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Located at: Quadrangle Dormitories, Upper Quad.

seated figure. circa 1910 through 1920

Gross Area (square feet): 64 inches by 40 inches by 52 inches

Year Built: 1915

Architect: Lynn Jenkins

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Located at: Quadrangle Dormitories, Upper Quad.

Methodist Alumni of Pennsylvania. SIG commission

Gross Area (square feet): 96 inches high

Year Built: 1918

Architect: R. Tait McKenzie

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Located at: Quadrangle Dormitory, North Arcade

Gross Area (square feet): 54 inches by 32 inches by 28 inches

Year Built: 1900

Architect: Alexander Calder

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Located at: Northeast corner Spruce Street and Woodland Walk

A gift from the Class of 1956, this half replicate of a Peter Witt trolley car (Peter Witt 8000-8534, J. G. Brill 1923-26), manufactured by the Gomaco Trolley Company, October 2006, is a symbol of a time when Penn students coexisted with a light rail transportation network crisscrossing the campus. One end of this trolley shell shelters the stairwell serving the current SEPTA 37th and Spruce Streets station platform and the other provides a nostalgic recreation of a period trolley interior.

Year Built: 2006

Architect: Gomaco Trolley Company

Located at: 37th and Locust Walk, South East Corner

Figure seated on a park bench with pigeon. Other Name: Ben Franklin on Campus, Ben on a Bench

Gross Area (square feet): 49 inches by 71 inches by 4 inches

Year Built: 1987

Architect: George Lundeen

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Located at: 37th and Locust Walk: Class of '59 Plaza

Gross Area (square feet): 42 inches by 72 inches by 72 inches

Year Built: 1985

Architect: Bentivoglio and Lundgren

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Located at: Annenberg Center, Lobby

Nickel silver on monel metal.

Gross Area (square feet): 47 inches by 53 inches by 32 inches

Year Built: 1964

Architect: Seymour Lipton

Located at: Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall Atrium

Male figure - Installation date refers to re-installation after theft and recovery in 1986.

Year Built: 1979

Architect: Auguste Rodin

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Located at: Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall Atrium

Suspension: Occupies 30 feet of vertical space (varies) by 20 feet wide by 150 feet long.

Gross Area (square feet): 360 inches by 240 inches by 1800 inches

Year Built: 1986

Architect: Nick Vidnovic

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Located at: Steinhart Plaza, Woodland Walk

3 pieces 14 foot diam 7 foot radius

Gross Area (square feet): 168 inches by 84 inches

Year Built: 1993

Architect: Anne Froehling

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Located at: Fagin Hall, west courtyard

Orange, yellow, green, blue, purple &, red, painted steel.

Gross Area (square feet): 6 pieces, each 144 inches high

Year Built: 1979

Architect: Ephraim Peleg

Located at: Fagin Hall, roof terrace

Gross Area (square feet): 28 and a half inches by 15 inches by 34 and a half inches

Year Built: 1987

Architect: Herbert Seiler

Located at: Fagin Hall, exterior court.

Year Built: 1987

Architect: Stephen Porter

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Located at: Nursing Education Building, exterior court

Year Built: 1975

Architect: Ernest Shaw (M.D.)

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Located at: T. G. Miller Plaza, Hamilton Walk, between HUP and Med Ed Bldg.

Painted mild steel. 4 pieces, irregular. Appears as cut from a single cylinder and separated.

Gross Area (square feet): 192' by 48' by 48'

Year Built: 1977

Architect: Robert Engman

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Located at: HUP, Spruce Street, in front of Gates Pavilion

Gross Area (square feet): 24 inches by 12 inches by 12 inches

Year Built: 1941

Architect: Evelyn B. Longman Batchelder

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Located at: Spruce Street, Admissions Walk

Twin Wrought Iron Gates, painted black.

Gross Area (square feet): 240 inches by 168 inches

Year Built: 1873

Architect: Unknown

Located at: South West corner of College Hall

On pedestal, 32 inches by 32 inches, Total 8 foot 8 inches high

Gross Area (square feet): 36 inches by 28 inches by 20 inches

Year Built: 1900

Architect: John J. Boyle

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Located at: Class of '55 Courtyard, Wynn Commons, Perelman Quadrangle

Seated Bronze figure on 42 inches Wide by 60 inches Depth granite base. Total 9 feet in Height

Gross Area (square feet): 65 inches by 44 inches by 55 inches

Year Built: 1895

Architect: Karl (William) Bittler

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Located at: Blanche Levy Park

Black painted, polygon form. Four 3 dimensional letters

Gross Area (square feet): 6 foot by 3 foot by 3 foot

Year Built: 1966

Architect: Robert Indiane

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