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For students and others trying to locate
information about public art in Philadelphia.
When researching an artwork,
it helps to know the artist, title,
and commissioning
agency. For this basic information,
see this site's selected works of public
art indexed by artist
and title.
The Fairmount Park Art Association's Public
Art Inventory (available in the Art
Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia)
and the Smithsonian's
on-line database, the Inventory of American
Sculpture, are also good starting points.
Also see the books Public
Art in Philadelphia and Sculpture
of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze
and Stone.
We recommend contacting
commissioning agencies directly, because
each agency maintains files on its own projects.
Our guide to
Philadelphia's Public Art Agencies provides
an overview of the organizations in the
city that commission public art and information
about how to contact them. Information about
works commissioned or acquired by the Art
Association before 1976 may be found in
our archives at the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania.
For general information
about public art and for information about
public art outside of Philadelphia, see
our Public Art
Bibliography and our guide to Public
Art on the Web.
Research
Requests
Researchers may also
submit requests for information about specific
artists or artworks in writing to the Fairmount
Park Art Association. Before submitting
a request, we suggest you investigate the
resources described above.
To submit a research request,
please mail or fax a detailed letter of
inquiry about the subject you are researching
to the Fairmount Park Art Association. Please
be sure to include your name, address, daytime
phone number, and e-mail address. Requests
will be processed within two to four weeks,
and staff will contact you if they need
more information. Please see Image
Rights and Reproductions for information
about requesting photographs and slides.
Send
letters of inquiry to:
Research Requests
Fairmount Park Art Association
1616 Walnut Street, Suite 2012
Philadelphia, PA 19103-5313
Fax: 215.546.2363
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