Artwork Details
- Title
- Puma
- Artist
- William Zorach (1887 – 1966)
- Year
- 1954; installed 1962
- Medium
- Labrador Black granite, on granite base
- Dimensions
- Height 3'4 1/2", width 2'6", depth 2'3" (base height 2'1", width 5'6", depth 7'6"
Artwork Description
The grace and power of this beautiful animal has been captured in Labrador Black granite by William Zorach. A Lithuanian immigrant and lithographer, Zorach studied at the Cleveland School of Art and National Academy of Design in New York City. Recognized as an American Cubist painter, he discovered sculpture in his late 20’s and helped revive the technique of direct carving in the United States.
The Association for Public Art (then known as the Fairmount Park Art Association) purchased Puma from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art’s 157th Annual Exhibition in 1962 and installed it in the Azalea Garden at the request of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
Artwork Credits
Purchased by Association for Public Art (formerly Fairmount Park Art Association) from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1962 exhibition
Owned by the City of Philadelphia