Placed along the axis of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia are three works of art by three generations of the same family. What family is this, and what are the works of art?
The Calder family has works of art by three generations along the axis of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Alexander Milne Calder’s statue of William Penn tops City Hall. Alexander Stirling Calder’s Swann Memorial Fountain is in Logan Circle, while Alexander “Sandy” Calder’s mobile “Ghost” is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Source: Public Art in Philadelphia, 1992, p.74, Penny Balkin Bach, 709.
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