Cox, John Bellangee, 1839-1888
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Night, 1872-1874, 1962, 2022-2025
File — Drawer: 7.3
Scope and Contents
A letter from Anthony J. Drexel of the Fairmount Park Art Association to Morton McMichael notifying the Fairmount Park Commission that the statue is complete and requesting acceptance and designation of a site (1872), a letter to Theodore Cuyler regarding donor Edwin N. Benson's request to efface the pedestal inscription and replace it with the word "Night" in small gilded letters (1872), the Second Annual Report of the Fairmount Park Art Association (1874), and a condition and treatment...
Dates:
1872-1874; 1962; 2022-2025
Orestes and Pylades Fountain, 1884, 1962, 2004-2010
File — Drawer: 7.3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from John Bellangee Cox of the Fairmount Park Art Association requesting Fairmount Park Commission approval of the purchase of the original plaster mold before completion of the foundry work, and requesting the Commission designate a location for the fountain (1884), and a letter from Cox notifying the Commission that the fountain, recently erected in East Park, is offered to the Fairmount Park Commission (1884).
Dates:
1884; 1962; 2004-2010
Tam O'Shanter, 1878, 1924-1964, 2007
File — Drawer: 7.3
Scope and Contents
A letter from J.B. Cox, Secretary of the Fairmount Park Art Association, clarifying that the Tam O'Shanter sculpture group remains the property of the Franklin Institute and requesting the Fairmount Park Commission amend its 1877 resolution of acceptance to reflect that the sculptures are held in trust (1878), a 1942 letter from Park Guard Superintendent William Long reporting damage caused by boys throwing stones, and correspondence documenting the sculptures' removal to storage near...
Dates:
1878; 1924-1964; 2007
The Wrestlers, 1885-1997
File — Drawer: 7.3
Scope and Contents
A letter from John Bellangee Cox, Secretary of the Fairmount Park Art Association, presenting reproductions of The Wrestlers and Silenus and the Infant Bacchus to the Fairmount Park Commission and notifying them of selected sites for each, and proposing a new pedestal and location for the Hudson Bay Wolves (1885), a letter from the Fairmount Park Commission to W.H. Noble of the Fairmount Park Art Association approving placement of The Wrestlers in front of Memorial Hall and moving The Boxer...
Dates:
1885-1997
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- Annual Reports 1
- Hudson Bay Wolves Quarreling Over the Carcass of a Deer 1
- Night (sculpture) 1
- Orestes and Pylades Fountain 1
- Photographs 1
- Reports 1
- Reproductions 1
- Silenus and the Infant Bacchus 1
- Site plans 1
- Tam O'Shanter 1
- The Boxer (Pugilatore) 1
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