''The Rush of Green'', also known as ''Pan'' or ''The Bowater House Group'', was the last sculpture completed by
Jacob Epstein before his death at his home in
Hyde Park Gate on 19 August 1959. The sculpture group includes a long-limbed family – father, mother, son and dog – rushing towards
Hyde Park
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Places
England
* Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London
* Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds
* Hyde Park, Sheffield, district of Sheffield
* Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester
Austra ...
, encouraged by the Greek god
Pan playing his
pipes. It was cast in bronze posthumously and installed in 1961 on a plinth separating the carriageways of Edinburgh Gate beneath
Bowater House
Bowater House was a 17-floor office block at 68 Knightsbridge in London SW1, completed in 1958. The building occupied a site between Knightsbridge and South Carriage Road, at the southern edge of Hyde Park. It was demolished in 2006 and redevelo ...
. The sculpture was removed when Bowater House was demolished in 2006 and reinstalled near the building which replaced it,
One Hyde Park
One Hyde Park is a major residential and retail complex located in Knightsbridge, London. The development includes three retail units (Rolex, McLaren Automotive and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank) and 86 residential properties marketed with prices starti ...
, in 2010. The sculpture was granted a Grade II
listing in January 2016.
The sculpture was commissioned by
Harold Samuel
Harold Samuel (23 May 187915 January 1937) was a distinguished English pianist and pedagogue. He was one of the first pianists of the twentieth century to focus purely on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, and was known for his academic and c ...
in November 1957. He was the chairman of the
Land Securities Investment Trust, and intended the statue to be sited beside the company's new office development at Bowater House, on the southern edge of Hyde Park. It was cast in bronze by
Morris Singer and installed in April 1961 in the middle of Edinburgh Gate, a road that ran from
Knightsbridge underneath the newly built Bowater House to South Carriage Drive. A maquette of the sculpture was exhibited in the foyer of the building.
The sculpture was removed when Bowater House was demolished in 2006 to be replaced by
One Hyde Park
One Hyde Park is a major residential and retail complex located in Knightsbridge, London. The development includes three retail units (Rolex, McLaren Automotive and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank) and 86 residential properties marketed with prices starti ...
and reinstalled in 2010 at the entrance to the relocated Edinburgh Gate, some distance to the west, still beside South Carriage Road, accompanied by new bronze gates designed by
Wendy Ramshaw
Wendy Anne Jopling Ramshaw (26 May 1939 – 9 December 2018) was a British ceramicist, jeweller and sculptor. Her signature ringsets are in 70 public collections in both museums and art galleries.
Life
Ramshaw was born in Sunderland in 1939. She ...
.
See also
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1959 in art
Events from the year 1959 in art.
Events
* June 10 – National Museum of Western Art established in Tokyo.
* André Breton asks Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Enrique Tábara and Eugenio Granell to represent Spain by exhibiting some of their works ...
*
Greek mythology in western art and literature
With the rediscovery of classical antiquity in the Renaissance, the poetry of Ovid became a major influence on the imagination of poets and artists, and remained a fundamental influence on the diffusion and perception of classical mythology throu ...
*
List of public art in Knightsbridge
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby uni ...
References
Pan Statue Royal Parks
One Hyde Park Davison Arts Partnership
28 February 2013
London’s Epstein Sculptures: Part 7: Hyde Park ''Spike'' Magazine, 12 January 2012
The Pan Statue Historic England
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