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Statue of Samuel Eliot Morison

Coordinates: 42°21′4.2″N 71°4′51″W / 42.351167°N 71.08083°W / 42.351167; -71.08083
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Statue of Samuel Eliot Morison
The statue in 2019
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ArtistPenelope Jencks
Year1982 (1982)
MediumBronze sculpture
SubjectSamuel Eliot Morison
LocationBoston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates42°21′4.2″N 71°4′51″W / 42.351167°N 71.08083°W / 42.351167; -71.08083

A statue of military historian Samuel Eliot Morison by Penelope Jencks is installed along Boston's Commonwealth Avenue Mall, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

Description and history

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The 1982 bronze sculpture, set atop a sculpted granite boulder, depicts Morison holding binoculars. Below his feet, embedded in the boulder, are bronze casts of crabs, shells, and starfish. Etched into a smaller rock beside the boulder is inscribed his counsel to young writers: ”Dream dreams, then write them aye, but live them first.”

The work was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993.[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Samuel Eliot Morison, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on September 18, 2023. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
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