The Young Punch Juggling, PAFA

Robert Taplin, The Young Punch Juggling, fiberglass and steel, 16 foot, 2014,. The plinth platform built into a building façade to support a statue is from an old style of architecture, a style architects Frank Furness and George Hewitt were playing with when they designed the home of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts in 1871.

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