Relief: bronze panel with figures coated in gold leaf
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 Over entrance to British Empire Building, 620 Fifth Avenue New York New York
Date:
Installed January 1933. Copyrighted 1933
Notes:
Gayle, Margot & Michele Cohen, "Guide to Manhattan's Outdoor Sculpture," New York: Prentice Hall, 1988, pg. 184.
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. 184.
C.P. Jennewein/(copyright symbol)/1933 signed
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Summary:
Above the entrance to the building is a panel of dark-colored bronze on which appear nine gilded figures, arranged in three vertical rows. The figures represent the British empire industries: a fisherman, a seaman, a coal miner --symbolizing the industries of the British Isles; a woman carrying a bag of salt, a woman next to a tobacco plant, a man holding stalks of sugarcane --symbolizing the industries of India; a shepherd --symbolizing the wool industry of Australia; a reaper with wheat stalks --symbolizing the wheat industry of Canada; and a woman among cotton plants --symbolizing the cotton industry of Africa.
