HERMANT, Léon

Blason de Philadelphie (pile sud de l'ancrage ouest)

Coat of arms of Philadelphia (South tower of West anchorage)

1926

stone

relief

Photo credit: ph Wikimedia/Beyond My Ken

© Artist : public domain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin Bridge

www.drpa.org/bridges/bridges_bf.html

Provenance

• after Wikipedia (accessed 23 December 2015):
• The Benjamin Franklin Bridge ? originally named the Delaware River Bridge, and now informally called the Ben Franklin Bridge ? is a suspension bridge across the Delaware River connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey.
• 1922-1926, construction. The chief engineer of the bridge was Ralph Modjeski (born in Poland), the design engineer was Leon Moisseiff (born in Latvia), and the supervising architect was Paul Philippe Cret (born in France).
• 1926, It was dedicated as part of the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1926-1929, it had the longest single span of any suspension bridge in the world.

Bibliography

• Artist's Wikipedia page (accessed 23 December 2015)
• 2009 Howard and Howard
  Michael Howard, Maureen Howard, The Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Arcadia Publishing, 2009, p. 127

Related works

• The four coats of arms sculpted by Hermant are: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Camden.
  He is also the sculptor for the four Winged Victories.