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Giant Frog

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Giant Frog, 1941

 File — Drawer 7.1
Scope and Contents

Includes photograph submitted to Art Jury. Verso contains Art Jury annotations and "Approved" stamp.

Dates: 1941

Giant Frog, 1941, 1962

 File — Drawer 7.2
Scope and Contents Correspondence and architectural drawings related to the installation of the sculpture in Rittenhouse Square (1941), including a letter from Paul Philippe Cret discussing the Fairmount Park Commission's authority to bypass Art Jury approval and the proposed relocation of the Joan of Arc sculpture to Rittenhouse Square, correspondence regarding fast-tracking Art Jury approval before the Rittenhouse Square Flower Show, and architectural drawings by Cret titled "New footing and base for granite...
Dates: 1941; 1962