11 Restrooms Sculpture 12 Drinking Fountain tour Emergency Telephone 10 9 14 15 13 8 16 2 4 7 1 6 18 3 5 17 55 Stanchion 1212 African Queen 66 Three Tubes 1313 A Waltz in the Woods 77 Untitled (after Black Forest) 1414 American Bull 11 Two Lines Variable - Thirty Feet 88 Heart Pod 1515 Inside Out 22 Untitled, cast bronze bell 99 After B.K.S Iyengar 1616 Saint Francis 33 Untitled 1010 Three Monkeys & Fudo Stones 1717 Cotswold Sheep 44 John and Lydia Morris 1111 Mercury 1818 Gemination Sequence Morris ArboretuM sculpture tour 1 Two Lines VariabLe -ThirTy FeeT 4 John and Lydia Morris 7 UnTitled (after bLack ForesT) Two Lines is a sculpture that is moved by the Over a hundred years ago, the horticulturists This piece is a study of tetrahedrons wind. Walk slowly around it, viewing it at close and civic leaders John T. Morris and his sister (four-sided solids) that were made when the range and from a distance. What images does it Lydia T. Morris built a summer home and artist stood cubes on their corners, cut through call to mind - clock hands, scissors, chopsticks, garden in Chestnut Hill. To ensure that future the cubes with planes, then rotated and stacked a bird’s beak? George Rickey enticed nature generations would have access to the site and the ensuing structures upon each other. to collaborate with him in Two Lines. The its botanical treasures, they established Viewed from different angles in the stainless steel surfaces catch and reflect a public arboretum. The artist researched Arboretum’s Azalea Meadow, the piece sunlight. Two Lines occupies the site where historical photos to determine the Morrises’ will inspire interest and lively discussion. John and Lydia Morris once lived in a appearance, then sculpted their likenesses in Victorian mansion. full-size clay figures. • Created by: Robinson Fredenthal (American, 1940-2009) • Created by: George Rickey • Created by: Michael B. Price • Welded carbon steel, painted, 1988 (American, 1907-2002) (American, b. 1940) • Gift of Barton and Carol Lippincott • Stainless steel, 1988 • Everdur silicon bronze, 1981 • Gift of Nancy Peters Ryan and Richard J. Ryan • Gift of Philip and Muriel Berman hearT Pod 2 UnTiTLed, casT bronze beLL 5 sTanchion 8 In nature, pods provide a protective container In Ancient Greece, architectural columns After creating clay vessels that rattle when for new plants. The Philadelphia-based were sometimes carved to resemble standing shaken, Toshiko Takaezu began making sculptor Jim Lloyd alludes to the shape females. Sculptor Christopher Cairns evoked bronze bells to further explore sound as of such organic housings in this bronze this classical tradition by naming his draped a component in her sculpture. sculpture. These outer swells enfold a figureStanchion , which means a prop or burgeoning core, which the artist likens The Hawaiian-born artist researched Japanese support. Cairns chose to depict a woman to a heart. bell designs to enhance the sound quality of emerging from the clay he used to fashion her work. The simple wooden support evokes her. For this reason, some people interpret The circular bottom ofHeart Pod balances on a Shinto shrine, dedicated to the traditional Stanchion as a symbol of metamorphosis. one small point. To view its changing curves, spirits of the natural world. you can either walk around it or gently rotate • Created by: Christopher Cairns it with your hand. • Created by: Toshiko Takaezu (American, b. 1942) (American, b. 1922) • Bronze, 1984 • Created by: Jim Lloyd (American, b. 1944) • Cast bronze bell, wood and metal support, • Gift of Madeleine Butcher, • Bronze, lead, 1993 c. 1992 Barton H. Lippincott and J. Randolf Updike • Gift of Johns Hopkins in memory • Gift of Jane and Leonard Korman of Phoebe V. Valentine 3 UnTiTLed 6 Three TUbes 9 aFTer b. k. s. iyengar On sunny days, Sugarman’s blue seems to mimic Three Tubespresents a visual puzzle. Sculptor Robert Engman’s After B. K. S. the sky. In the fall, nearby leaves echo the sculpture’s Three disconnected cylinders are aligned Iyengar is not a portrait in the usual sense. maroon hues. Some of the sculpted shapes hint in a column as if by magic. Israel Hadani Dynamic geometric shapes embody the at the natural architecture of trees, bowers and sheathed its rugged, structural steel frame radiant spirit of his friend, the Indian yoga glens. His forms convey the repetitious with a stainless steel skin. master B.K.S. Iyengar. Three circles and energy of waves or cascading falls, others evoke a square intersect one another, creating the animal world, calling to mind dinosaurs, • Created by: Israel Hadani both open and closed spaces. and other large creatures. (Israeli, b. 1941) • Created by: George Sugarman • Created by: Robert M. Engman • Stainless steel over structural steel, 1979 (American, b. 1927) (American, 1912-1999) • Gift of Philip and Muriel Berman • Painted aluminum, 1981 • Sikon bronze, 1978 • Courtesy of Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia • On loan from Marian Garfinkel & Marvin Garfinkel Morris ArboretuM sculpture tour 10 Three Monkeys & FUdo sTones 13 A WALTZ IN THE WOODS 16 sainT Francis The fudo stones, including the one with the On display in the Madeleine K. Butcher Saint Francis, the founder of the Franciscan carved monkeys, were placed in the Overlook Sculpture Garden, this site-specific piece order, was born in Assisi, Italy over eight Garden when it was created in 1912. Fudo was created by the artist with help from hundred years ago. A humble and means immovable and permanent. Notice volunteers and Arboretum staff. It includes compassionate man, Francis regarded the three monkeys illustrating the proverb, seven “towers”, each roughly 30 feet high, all living things as his brothers and sisters. “See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil.” through which visitors may roam. Open According to tradition, the gentle Francis windows create an airy feel, and opposing once preached a sermon to the birds. • Diabase doors allow for travel between the towers. • Commissioned by John T. Morris • Created by: Madeleine K. Butcher •Created by: Patrick Dougherty (American, 1920-2004) (American b. 1945) • Bronze, 1985 • Locally gathered, natural materials, • Gift of Madeleine K. Butcher willow, 2015 11 MercUry 14 aMerican bull 17 coTswoLd sheeP According to classical mythology, Mercury The Arboretum’s streamsides are home to When viewed from a distance, these steel was the god of commerce, eloquence, travel, many creatures, including the aquatic sheep appear to be alive. They were fabricated cunning and theft. Fleet of foot, he wore bullfrog. Lorraine Vail’s sculpted bullfrog is at 125 percent of life-size, to avoid appearing magical, winged sandals in his role as unmoved by our presence as he surveys the diminished by the vast meadow. Historically messenger to the other gods. world through narrowed eyelids. The artist garden estates often included livestock skillfully captured both his likeness and not only to trim the lawn but to provide This bronze sculpture is an early 20th century distinctive personality, as if he had sat for his a reference to an agricultural past. reproduction of a 4th century BC original portrait. Vail rendered him in a gigantic scale, in the collection of the National Museum in “to give the viewer a ‘small’ feeling in the • Created by: Charles Layland Naples, Italy. Mercury is shown as an athletic environment.” (American, b. 1928) young man. • Cor-ten steel, 1980 • Created by: Lorraine Vail • Gift of Philip and Muriel Berman • Created by: Anonymous Artist (American, b. 1952) (Greco-Roman, dates unknown) • Resin-bonded bronze, 1981 • Cast bronze on marble base, c. 1913 • Gift of Dorothy Willaman Haas • Purchased by John T. Morris 12 aFrican QUeen 15 inside out 18 geMinaTion sequence Zimbabwe is a center for contemporary stone In nature, Pennsylvania limestone has a This sculpture’s title is derived from gemini, carving in Africa. Its Tengenenge School attracts rough, craggy exterior. But when it is cut meaning twins, and germination, signifying self-taught artists who enjoy working in a open and dressed, it has an even veneer and the beginning of growth. Located along the communal setting. crisp edges. In Inside Out, Buky Schwartz winding entrance drive, sheets of bronze reversed our expectations about limestone’s simply curved suggest an interior form, African Queen is carved from serpentine, an inside and outside. He sliced a quarried a presence. extremely hard and durable stone indigenous stone into four sections, and worked each to Zimbabwe. The artist who craftedAfrican interior until it was smooth. Schwartz then To view this piece, park in the grass lot next Queen kept its rough-hewn surface in the regal arranged the quarters “inside out,” inviting to the kiosk. headdress surrounding the artfully modeled face. us to walk into the sculpture to explore the raw outer surface of this natural material. • Created by: Linda Cunningham • Created by: L. Gonde (American b. 1939) • Created by: Buky Schwartz (Zimbabwean, dates unknown) • Bronze and steel, 1979 (Israeli, 1932-2009) • Carved serpentine stone • Gift of Philip and Muriel Berman • Pennsylvania limestone, 1980 • On loan from Carole Haas Gravagno • Gift of Philip and Muriel Berman.