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Title:
African Legend
Artist:
Phillips, Robert
Date:
2006
Materials:
Steel, aluminum
Location:
Widener Library Branch, 2808-2826 West Lehigh Avenue
District:
5
Description:

African Legend was commissioned under the Percent for Art Program specifically for the interior lobby of the Widener Library Branch. Mounted to a brick wall, five overlapping steel antelope forms are depicted in varying stages of motion.  Beneath the antelopes reads: No one knows the story of tomorrow's dawn (African Proverb from the Asante people of Ghana.)

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