Artwork Details
- Title
- Evelyn Taylor Price Memorial Sundial
- Artist
- Beatrice Fenton (1887 – 1983)
- Year
- 1947
- Medium
- Bronze, on granite base
- Dimensions
- Height 4'11", width 2'6", depth 2' (base height 3', width 3', depth 2')
Artwork Description
The Evelyn Taylor Price Memorial Sundial was commissioned by the Rittenhouse Square Improvement Association in memory of Evelyn Taylor, who was the organization’s president as well as the long-term president of the Flower Market Association. The sculpture depicts two cheerful naked children holding up the head of a sunflower, which is also a sundial — a play on the theme of flowers and the sun. Art historian Beatrice Gillman Proske referred to the piece as “a poetical reminder of the fleeting joys of sunshine.”
The sculpture embodies the fanciful liveliness that was characteristic of Beatrice Fenton’s garden and fountain sculptures. Fenton is also the artist who created Seaweed Girl Fountain at the Fairmount Park Horticulture Center.
Artwork Credits
Commissioned by the Rittenhouse Square Improvement Association
Owned by the City of Philadelphia
Artwork Media
Museum Without Walls
Voices:
BEATRICE FENTON, heard on archival tape, is the artist of Evelyn Taylor Price Memorial Sundial.
EVIE TAYLOR PRICE SCOTT is the granddaughter of Evelyn Taylor Price.
DR. PAGE TALBOTT is the former president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Segment Producer: Alex Lewis