page_title: Alexander Stirling Calder
section_title: Architectural sculpture
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Stirling Calder / Selected works / Architectural sculpture
caption_attribution_description: Taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in April 2006. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The Warden Garden is visible in the foreground, and the inscription above the door reads FREE MVSEVM OF SCIENCE &amp; ART.
context_page_description: Alexander Stirling Calder was an American sculptor and teacher. He was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander Calder. His best-known works are George Washington as President on the Washington Square Arch in New York City, the Swann Memorial Fountain in Philadelphia, and the Leif Eriksson Memorial in Reykjavík, Iceland.
context_section_description: Twelve cast stone figures of Presbyterian clergymen, Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1898–99, Joseph Miller Huston, architect.
  Six of the figures were removed in 1961, and relocated to the garden of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
  Six spandrel figures, cast concrete, Throop Polytechnic Institute (now California Institute of Technology), Pasadena, California, 1906–1909, Myron Hart & Elmer Grey, architects.
  Nature and Art, Energy and Law, Science and Imagination
  Oakland Civic Auditorium, Oakland, California, 1914, John J. Donovan, architect.
  The Riches of the Earth – Seven terra cotta, half-domed friezes within the arched entrances.
  Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, Missouri, 1924, Tracy and Swartwout, architects.
  South Frieze, limestone, 6 ft (1.8 m) x 138 ft (42 m), depicts Missouri history in 13 bas relief panels. The frieze flanks the tops of the central portico's columns and continues behind them.
  North Frieze, limestone, bas relief panels depict Native Americans and Europeans. The frieze flanks the tops of the central columns and continues inside the curved portico.
  Four figures of famous actresses, marble, I. Miller Building, Broadway and West 46th Street, Manhattan, New York City, 1927–1929:
  Sculpture program for University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, completed 1931, Wilson Eyre, Frank Miles Day, and Cope & Stewardson, architects:
  Lion's Head Fountain (1920s).
  Peacock doorway (1920s).
  Youth doorway (1920s).
  Gateposts (1920s): Asia, Africa, Europe, America
caption: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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