Fountain
Artistsculpted by
Carl Milles
(Swedish, 1875–1955)
Foundrycast by
Roman Bronze Works
(New York, 1897–about 1988)
Date1940–1941
Mediumsilvered pewter
Dimensions168.9 × 88.9 cm (66 1/2 × 35 in.)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. George N. Jeppson
Object number1941.8
Label TextBorn in Lagga, Sweden, Milles studied sculpture in Stockholm, and later travelled to Paris and Rome, where he was influenced by Rodin’s sculptures as well as Italian villas and fountains. He created a number of fountains in Sweden, Italy, and the United States, where he was a professor of sculpture at the Cranbrook Academy in Michigan in the early ‘30s.
Commissioned for the Worcester Art Museum by the donors, this fountain employs symbolism to evoke Milles’s childhood memory of stargazing in a boat with his father. The tritons astride the large fish represent the artist and his father, who stare upwards as if studying the heavens.On View
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