Sculpture goes underground in Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens

The Calders are everywhere in Philadelphia. Atop City Hall is a statue of the writer and theologian William Penn by Alexander Milne Calder (1894), which set the limit for the height of the city’s buildings until 1986. To the north west, his son Alexander Stirling Calder’s Swann Memorial Fountain in Logan Square (1924) uses large Native American figures to symbolise the city’s rivers. Nearby sits a work by his grandson Alexander Calder (the best known of the Calders), “Three Disks, One Lacking” (1968). Three generations of sculptors represented within a few blocks. Now, a little further to the north west of these along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is Calder Gardens.

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