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Person: Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Jo Davidson,
1939
* Statue of Walt Whitman
* standing person
carrying a hat
* Southwest corner, Broad and Packer, on the approach to the onramp.
* 39.911460,-75.173325 [map] [nearby]
* On the South Broad tour
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's Jo Davidson page
Social Consciousness
Jacob Epstein,
1954
* Quote from Walt Whitman
* big
people,
some standing,
some not
* Was next to the back steps of the Art Museum. Moved August, 2019. The first three pictures are from the current location.
* inscription:
A grand sane towering seated mother
Chair'd in the adamant of Time.
-Walt Whitman
* On the walkway that runs East from 36th just South of Walnut.
* 39.952600,-75.194475 [map] [nearby]
* On the Penn Campus tour
* Exhibits: Moved
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's Jacob Epstein page
Walt Whitman
Leonard Baskin,
1981
* Bust of Walt Whitman
* head
* In front of Whitman Plaza.
4th and Oregon.
* 39.914700,-75.156260 [map] [nearby]
* On the South Philly tour
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's Leonard Baskin page
See Also
+wikipedia.org's Walt Whitman page