''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

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, 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,

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, 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

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 ...

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