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Statue_of_Samuel_Eliot_Morison Latitude and Longitude:
42°21′4.2″N 71°4′51″W / 42.351167°N 71.08083°W / 42.351167; -71.08083
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Statue of Samuel Eliot Morison
The statue in 2019
Artist Penelope Jencks
Year1982 (1982)
Medium Bronze sculpture
Subject Samuel Eliot Morison
Location Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates 42°21′4.2″N 71°4′51″W / 42.351167°N 71.08083°W / 42.351167; -71.08083

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

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

References

  1. ^ "Samuel Eliot Morison, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on September 18, 2023. Retrieved October 31, 2019.

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