Samuel Gross (Calder)

Samuel Gross
Artist Alexander Stirling Calder
Year 1897
Type Bronze
Location Philadelphia
Coordinates 39°56′53″N 75°09′30″W / 39.94806°N 75.15825°W / 39.94806; -75.15825Coordinates: 39°56′53″N 75°09′30″W / 39.94806°N 75.15825°W / 39.94806; -75.15825
Owner Thomas Jefferson University

Samuel Gross is a bronze statue by Alexander Stirling Calder as a tribute to Samuel D. Gross, an American surgeon. It is located in Sidney and Ethal Lubert Plaza, on the North side of Locust Street, East of 11th Street, Philadelphia.[1]

It was completed in 1897, and dedicated by president William McKinley,[2] in the Smithsonian Park of the U.S. Capitol on a pedestal appropriated by the U.S. Congress.[3]

In April 1970, it was relocated to the campus of Thomas Jefferson University in Center City Philadelphia. [4]

The inscription reads:
JABOEUF & BEZOUT FONDEURS A PARIS
(Sculpture, lower proper left side:)
CALDER
(Base, front:)

SAMUEL D. GROSS

American Physicians have erected
this statue to commemorate great deeds
of a man who made such an impression
on American surgery that it has served

to dignify American Medicine

1897 signed Founder's mark appears.
[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.philart.net/person.php?id=45
  2. ↑ "Personal". The New York Times. May 2, 1897.
  3. ↑ "Statue of Dr. Samuel D. Gross". Baltimore Sun. May 5, 1897. Retrieved 2010-12-27. ... the unveiling of the statue of Mrs Horwltz's father Dr Samuel D Gross The statue has been recently erected in the grounds of the Smlthsonlan Institution ...
  4. ↑ http://jdc.jefferson.edu/campus_art_TJU/4/
  5. ↑ "Dr. Samuel Gross, (sculpture). SIRIS
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