Statue of Samuel Eliot Morison
| Statue of Samuel Eliot Morison | |
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 The statue in 2019 | |
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| Artist | Penelope Jencks |
| Year | 1982 |
| Medium | Bronze sculpture |
| Subject | Samuel Eliot Morison |
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 42°21′4.2″N 71°4′51″W / 42.351167°N 71.08083°W | |
A statue of military historian Samuel Eliot Morison by Penelope Jencks is installed along Boston's Commonwealth Avenue Mall, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
Description and history
[edit]The 1982 bronze sculpture, set atop a sculpted granite boulder, depicts Morison holding binoculars. Below his feet, embedded in the boulder, are bronze casts of crabs, shells, and starfish. Etched into a smaller rock beside the boulder is inscribed his counsel to young writers: ”Dream dreams, then write them aye, but live them first.”
The work was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993.[1]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Samuel Eliot Morison, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on September 18, 2023. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
External links
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Media related to Statue of Samuel Eliot Morison at Wikimedia Commons
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