Watersprite of the Brandywine
Date1963
Artist
Charles Cropper Parks
American sculptor, 1922–2012
MediumBronze
Dimensions40 × 27 1/2 × 18 in. (101.6 × 69.9 × 45.7 cm)
base: 9 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (24.4 × 24.4 cm)
base: 9 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (24.4 × 24.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Antonia B. Laird, Julia B. Leisenring and Susan B. Parker, 1997
Object number1997-50
On View
On viewCollections
- Copeland Sculpture Garden on View
ClassificationsSCULPTURE
Label TextCharles Parks is best known for his figurative sculptures that adorn private gardens and public spaces throughout the United States. Parks’ elfin creature is a personification of the robust milling industry that flourished along the lower Brandywine Creek in southeastern Pennsylvania and Delaware in the 18th and 19th centuries.
