Sculpture: limestone reliefs, painted and gilded, and glass panels
Type:
Sculptures-Relief
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by Rockefeller Group Corporate Communications Department 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York New York 10020
Located Rockefeller Center RCA Building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York New York
Date:
Ca. 1933. Dedicated 1933
Notes:
Gayle, Margot & Michele Cohen, "Guide to Manhattan's Outdoor Sculpture," New York: Prentice Hall, 1988, pg. 179.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York, New York survey, 1993.
Image on file.
Gayle, Margot & Michele Cohen, "Guide to Manhattan's Outdoor Sculpture," New York: Prentice Hall, 1988, pg. 179.
WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE/SHALL BE THE/STABILITY OF THY TIME
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Summary:
A limestone panel relief of a bearded man, holding a compass, who represents Wisdom. He is flanked on both sides by panels each with a figure, one representing Light and one representing Sound. Sound, on Wisdom's proper right, is a muscular male nude crouched on all fours. Light, on Wisdom's proper left, is a robed female reclining among the clouds. Below each panel is a grid pattern consisting of 240 Corning glass blocks.
