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123. Evelyn Taylor Price Memorial Sundial (1947), Beatrice Fenton

Voices heard in the program:BEATRICE FENTON, heard on archival tape, is the artist of the Evelyn Taylor Price Memorial Sundial.EVIE TAYLOR PRICE SCOTT is the granddaughter of Evelyn Taylor Price.DR. PAGE TALBOTT is the former president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.Segment Producer: Alex Lewis

121. Duck Girl (1911), Paul Manship

Voices heard in the program:MAJOR JACKSON is a poet who was born and raised in Philadelphia. His poem Duck Girl on the Occasion of Spring was commissioned and performed by Philadelphia’s Concerto Soloists.DR. SUSAN RATHER is Associate Professor of American Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship.ROBERT COZZOLINO is the former Senior Curator and Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where Paul Manship studied and exhibited.Segment Producer: Jenna Weiss-Berman

122. Lion Crushing a Serpent (1832, cast 1891), Antoine-Louis Barye

Voices heard in the program:JUDITH F. DOLKART is the former Deputy Director of Art and Archival Collections and Gund Family Chief Curator of the Barnes Foundation.KAY BUFFAMONTE is the Lead Keeper of the “Big Cat Falls” at the Philadelphia Zoo.STEVEN TATTI is the Principal and Chief Conservator of Tatti Art Conservation. He has been cleaning, waxing, and buffing this sculpture since the early 1980s.Segment Producer: Jenna Weiss-Berman

120. Billy (1914), Albert Laessle

Voices heard in the program:PHILIP PRICE JR. is the grandson of Eli Kirk Price II, who was responsible for purchasing Billy for installation in Rittenhouse Square.NANCY HEINZEN is the author of The Perfect Square, a history of Rittenhouse Square. She has been a resident of Rittenhouse Square for over 40 years and is committed to its preservation.PHILIP HYUN SU and SARAH MI AE PRICE are the great-great-grandchildren of Eli Kirk Price II.Segment Producer: Sharon Mashihi

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